“ SEEN ACROSS TEN MILES OF sunlit water, Lorbanery was green, green as the bright moss by a fountain’s rim. Nearby, it broke up into leaves, and tree-trunks, and shadows, and roads, and houses, and the… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ People who sleep only two or three hours in the twenty-four are always geniuses. The ones you hear about, anyway. Never mind if the ones you don't hear about are dolts. Insomnia is genius. It must be.… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Partnership was a voluntarily constituted federation like any other. So long as it worked, it worked, and if it didn’t work it stopped being. It was not an institution but a function. It had no sancti… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Our entire pattern of socio-sexual interaction is nonexistent here. They cannot play the game. They do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imagination to accept. Wha… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Our border now is no line between two hills, but the line our planet makes in circling the Sun. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Onlardan korkuyorsun çünkü ölümden korkuyorsun haklı olarak: Çünkü ölüm ölüm korkunçtur ve ölümden korkmak gerekir... Ve yaşam da korkunç bir şeydir... ve yaşamdan hem korkulmalı hem de yaşam övülmeli… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Old age isn’t a state of mind. It’s an existential situation. Would you say to a person paralyzed from the waist down, Oh, you aren’t a cripple! You’re only as paralyzed as you think you are! My cousi… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you have… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ No, brother, I'm sane. What drives people crazy is trying to live outside reality. Reality is terrible. It can kill you. Given time, it certainly will kill you. The reality is pain- you said that! But… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ No one else, no thing even, has an existence of its own for him; he sees the world only as a means to his end. It doesn’t make any difference if his end is good; means are all we’ve got … Ursula K. Le Guin
“ No era él quien hacía las cosas: las cosas lo hacían a él. Había estado en manos de otra gente. La voluntad no había actuado. No había tenido necesidad de actuar. La voluntad había estado en el comien… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Night falls; the traveler must pass down village streets, between the houses with yellow- lit windows, and on out into the darkness of the fields. Each alone, they go west or north, towards the mounta… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram it into beer cans and fingernails and stake it out in lots and own it.… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ My race is very old, Ketho said. We have been civilized for a thousand millenia. We have histories of hundreds of those millenia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, with the rest. But have not trie… Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Minne oppaani ystävällisyydessään minut johdattavat, / Minä seuraan, seuraan kevyesti / eikä tomuun taaksemme / jää ainuttakaan jalanjälkeä. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ Lendas sobre previsões são comuns em toda a Família Humana. Deuses falam, espíritos falam, computadores falam. Ursula K. Le Guin
“ It’s nothing to do with eternity, said Shevek, grinning, a thin shaggy man of silver and shadow. All you have to do to see life whole is to see it as mortal. I’ll die, you’ll die; how could we love ea… Ursula K. Le Guin
