In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find, if it's a good novel, that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little. But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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To learn a belief without the belief is to sing a song without the tune. ~Ursula K. Le Guin
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