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As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And,

As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Book, Soul, Feelings

A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it... By using words well they strengthen their souls.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Mean, Soul, Who Cares

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. It will drown you all and never even notice.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Beer, Sea, Soul

It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Evil, Soul, Ged
Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “A Wizard of Earthsea”, p.141, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Cutting, Soul, Enemy

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

Ursula K. Le Guin
Soul, Doe, Hell
Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.151, Hachette UK

The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Writing, Soul, Share

In the airport, luggage-laden people rush hither and yon through endless corridors, like souls to each of whom the devil has furnished a different, inaccurate map of the escape route from hell.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Airports, People, Soul
Ursula K. Le Guin (2014). “Changing Planes: Stories”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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