There are talking dogs all over the place, unbelievably boring they are, on and on and on about sex and shit and smells, and smells and shit and sex, and do you love me, do you love me, do you love me.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Mots clés dogs anthropomorphization anthropomorphism dogs-speak dogs-humour anthropomorphizing



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Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher?

Ursula K. Le Guin

Mots clés hedonism intellectualism philsophy



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He also had a kind of helpless politeness, which I took advantage of. He was quite incapable of refusing a direct request, and so, because I asked him to, he invited me to several parties during the month I stayed in Hemgogn.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Mots clés politeness pushover



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My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Mots clés peace war justifying



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Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon in order to feel what I feel standing on the third step of a stepladder trying to put millet in the bird feeder.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Mots clés imagination worry sensitivity nervousness



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Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we know though we may not know we know it. The rarest dream is the dream that tells us what we have not known.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Mots clés dreams interpretation subconscious-mind



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The doctor was not, he thought, really sure that anyone else existed, and wanted to prove they did by helping them.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Mots clés existence existentialism psychiatry



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Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. They do not learn this by learning. They do not work it by working. They do not reason it by using reason. To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. —Chuang Tse: XXIII

Ursula K. Le Guin

Mots clés fate understanding comprehension limits



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In absence, presence. In death, life.

Ursula K. Le Guin


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This was the way he had to go; he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Mots clés dreams volition social-class



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