The story - from Rumplestiltskin to War and Peace - is one of the basic tools invented by the human mind, for the purpose of gaining understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

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from The Lathe of Heaven Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. . -Ursula K. LeGuin.

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I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Mary Baker Eddy -Ursula K. LeGuin.

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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

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The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next

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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.

— Ursula K. LeGuin