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What is more arrogant than honesty?

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November 2, 2026 at 2:43 PM

Truth is a matter of the imagination.

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November 2, 2026 at 9:43 PM

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

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November 2, 2026 at 6:43 PM
on the floor
a stack of books
and light

#dailyHaiku reposts by Freeman Ng, author of this screenplay adaptation of #UrsulaLeGuin 's THE TOMBS OF ATUAN (www.AuthorFreeman.com/atuan).

Today’s haiku was originally posted on Apr 3, 2015.

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November 2, 2026 at 9:55 PM

Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.

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November 3, 2026 at 12:43 PM

When you light a candle, you also cast a shadow.

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November 2, 2026 at 10:43 PM

To be whole is to be part;
true voyage is return.

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November 4, 2026 at 12:43 AM

She'll die.'
'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

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November 2, 2026 at 4:43 AM

For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

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November 2, 2026 at 11:43 PM

I was in too much haste, and now have no time left.

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November 3, 2026 at 9:43 AM

When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.

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November 2, 2026 at 11:43 AM

Having intelligence, we must not act in ignorance. Having choice, we must not act without responsibility.

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November 3, 2026 at 8:43 PM

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

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November 1, 2026 at 11:43 AM

To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.

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November 3, 2026 at 12:43 AM

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

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November 1, 2026 at 1:43 PM

To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.

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November 1, 2026 at 5:43 AM

It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.

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November 3, 2026 at 6:43 AM

For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.

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November 2, 2026 at 2:43 AM

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.

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November 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM

I always wondered why the makers leave housekeeping and cooking out of their tales. Isn't it what all the great wars and battles are fought for -- so that at day's end a family may eat together in a peaceful house?

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November 2, 2026 at 9:43 AM

The trouble is, women have to be absolutely first class to get where third-class men get.

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November 2, 2026 at 7:43 PM

Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive

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November 3, 2026 at 6:43 PM

Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on.

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November 2, 2026 at 12:43 AM

Gradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.

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November 1, 2026 at 7:43 PM

But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."

"It might to keep it open.

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November 3, 2026 at 11:43 AM