in an interview http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n12/htdocs/ursula-k-le-guin-440.php?country=uk in Vice Magazine.
Context: Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.
Source: Passion and Purity: Learning to Bring Your Love Life Under Christ's Control
“We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.”
The Fruits of Long Meditations (1884)
Source: 1840s, Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions (1845), p. 83
“We should live two lives in order to understand the world: one as a man and the other as a woman.”
Bisognerebbe vivere due vite per capire il mondo: una come uomo e l’altra come donna.
“We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.”
“Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.”
Source: The Bridge of San Luis Rey
“That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies.”
“We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.”
Speech at the Nobel Banquet (1991)
