“ The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual,only evil interesting. This is the trea… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Female, male. It is yourself, Therem. Both and one. A shadow on snow. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ I am offered the Grand Inquisitor's choice. Will you choose freedom without happiness, or happiness without freedom? The only answer one can make, I think, is: No. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Ged saw all these things from outside and apart, alone, and his heart was very heavy in him, though he would not admit to himself that he was sad. As night fell he still lingered in the streets, reluc… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Eleştirmenler Tolkien'ı 'basitleştirmeciliğinden', Orta Dünya'nın sakinlerini iyiler ve kötüler diye ikiye ayırmasından ötürü çok suçladılar. Tolkien gerçekten de bunu yapıyor. [...] öyküye ruhsal bir… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ [...] No sirve de nada tener una respuesta cuando la pregunta está equivocada. [...] Lo desconocido [...], lo imprevisto, lo indemostrable... el fundamento de la vida. La ignorancia es el campo del pe… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ «I am tired,» he said. «I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the entire will power, the accumulated strength of my entire existence… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ When I was young I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its conseq… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices must be made. {...} But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great ha… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ She the stranger, the foreigner, of alien blood and mind, did not share his power or his conscience or his knowledge or his exile. She shared nothing at all with him, but had met him and joined with h… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Orr had a tendency to assume that people knew what they were doing, perhaps because he generally assumed that he did not. Ursula K. Le Guin