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Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed Quotes: There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
         

There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.


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The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.

The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.



Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?

Where does your soul go, when you die in Hell?



Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.

Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.



Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.



There is no break in the wholeness of time.

There is no break in the wholeness of time.



They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.

They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.



He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person's solitude which alone transcends it.

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