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Farkli guneslerin isiklari farklidir, ama tek bir karanlik vardir.
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You must be Arha, or you must be Tenar. You cannot be both.
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We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to stand outside things and run them that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The world is, no matter how we think it ought to be. You have to be with it. You have to let it be.
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They exist. But they are not your Masters. They never were. You are free, Tenar. You were taught to be a slave, but you have broken free.
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What a comfort the past is," Mimen said, "when the future offers none."
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Most best-sellers are written for readers who are willing to be passive consumers. The blurbs on their covers often highlight the coercive, aggressive power of the text--compulsive page-turner, gut-wrenching, jolting, mind-searing, heart-stopping--what is this, electroshock torture?
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
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The discovery brings him victory, the kind of victory that isn't the end of a battle but the beginning of a life.
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There was something lacking - in him, he thought, not in the place. He was not up to it. He was not strong enough to take what was so generously offered. He felt himself dry and arid, like a desert plant, in this beautiful oasis. Life on Anarres had sealed him, closed off his soul; the waters of life welled all around him, and yet he could not drink.
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Between a man and a woman there is what they want there to be between them... each, and both.
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So he worked. He lost weight; he walked light on the earth. Lack of physical labor, lack of variety of occupation, lack of social and sexual intercourse, none of these appeared to him as lacks, but as freedom. He was the free man: he could do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it for as long as he wanted to do it. And he did. He worked. He work/played.
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He stopped and after a while went on. 'Try to choose carefully, Arren, when the great choices muct be made. When I was young I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt to the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, blinds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when y..
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The interplay of the aesthetic with the erotic is complex. The peacock's tail is beautiful to us, sexy to the peahen. Beauty and sexual attractiveness overlap, coincide. They may be deeply related. I think they should not be confused.
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sex-appeal
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To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof.
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spirituality
religion
god
science-fiction
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he thought no more of performing the lesser arts of magic than a bird thinks of flying. Yet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
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Self-satisfaction with the inability to remain conscious when faced with printed matter seems misplaced.
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The question was where to start. Where to build up a solid foundation of knowledge on which you could balance ideas. It wasn't exactly a modest ambition. But what I had learned from Natalie was that you could have a very immodest ambition if you went after it methodically.
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Shevek saw that he had touched in these men an impersonal animosity that went very deep. Apparently they, like the tables on the ship, contained a woman, a suppressed, silenced, bestialized woman, a fury in a cage. He had no right to tease them. They knew no relation but possession. They were possessed.
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women
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What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward toward the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end
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Literature is the extant body of written art. All novels belong to it. The value judgement concealed in distinguishing one novel as literature and another as genre vanishes with the distinction. Every readable novel can give true pleasure. Every novel read by choice is read because it gives true pleasure. Literature consists of many genres, including mystery, science fiction, fantasy, naturalism, realism, magical realism, graphic, erotic, e..
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So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was." -Hawk
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Hideo," said my mother, in the terrifying way women have of passing without interval from one subject to another because they have them all present in their mind at once, "you haven't found any kind of relationship?" --
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women
mothers
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I am sorry, I am very sorry to ask you to lie," he said, so earnestly that I wondered if it hurt him to lie. That made him seem more like a god than a human being. If it hurt to lie, how could you stay alive?"
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You can keep up that crap for years. But it finally catches up with you. And then you realise all you've done is save your shit to drown in.
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The universe as a giant harpstring, oscillating in and out of existence! What note does it play, by the way? Passages from the Numerical Harmonies, I supposed?
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string-theory
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He copulated with a number of girls, but copulation was not the joy it ought to be. It was a mere relief of need, like evacuating, and he felt ashamed of it afterward because it involved another person as object.
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I came to the center of the maze following him. Now I must find my way back out alone.
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The Encyclopedia Planaria, in forty-four volumes, is not portable, and after all, what is entirely reliable unless it's dead?
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Ekhe geia, phtokhe mou, eupiste anoete! Tha peis ten aletheia kai e aletheia tha se eleutherosei. Alla mporei kai okhi, exartatai apo ten periptose. Pegaine monos, agapete mou elithie- einai o kaluteros tropos gia na prokhoreseis. Tha mou leipsoun ta oneira sou. Ekhe geia, ekhe geia. Ta psaria kai oi episkeptes arkhizoun na bromane meta apo treis meres. Ekhe geia!
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Tezyeme," he said, which meant something on the order of "it is happening the way it is supposed to happen."
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taoism
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My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for not making war.
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war
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At the pit's bottom is no anger.
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It is hard to meet a stranger. Even the greatest extravert meeting even the meekest stranger knows a certain dread, though he may not know he knows it. Will he make a fool of me wreck my image of myself invade me destroy me change me? Yes, that he will. There's the terrible thing: the strangeness of the stranger.
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o. It is not wonderful. It is an ugly world. Not like this one. Anarres is all dusty and dry hills. All meager, all dry. And the people aren't beautiful. They have big hands and feet, like me and the waiter there. But not big bellies. They get very dirty, and take baths together, nobody here does that. The towns are very small and dull, they are dreary. No palaces. Life is dull, and hard work. You can't always have what you want, or even wh..
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Offering I made a poem going to sleep last night, woke in sunlight, it was clean forgotten. If it was any good, gods of the great darkness where sleep goes and farther death goes, you not named, then as true offering accept it.
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I never had a gift but one, to know when the great wheel gives to a touch, to know and act.
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He was never rash or hurried, but he was always read. It was the secret, no doubt, of the extraordinary political career he threw away for my sake; it was also the explanation of his belief in me and devotion to my mission. When I came, he was ready. Nobody else on Winter was.
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Perhaps women have more complicated selves. They know how to do more than one thing at one time. That comes late to men. If at all.
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They let us be, here, in the cage of our ignorance.
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suppression
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We weren't cruel, we were ignorant, foolish. Children are ignorant and foolish. But they learn. If they are given a chance to learn.
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To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.
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There was no more room in the world for whole people, they took up too much space. What she had done to him was only a part of the general program for cutting him and people like him down to size, for chopping and paring and breaking up, so that in the texture of life nothing large, nothing hard, nothing grand should remain.
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Po-k'sno, kogato Ged razmishliavashe za tazi noshch, stana mu iasno, che ako nikoi ne go be dokosnal, dokato lezheshe bezdikhanen, ako nikoi ne go be povikal po niakak'v nachin, toi shcheshe da si otide zavinagi. Spasi go edinstveno niamata, instinktivna m'drost na zviara, koito blizheshe raneniia si drugar, za da go uspokoi. No v tazi m'drost Ged vidia neshcho srodno s's sobstvenata si sila, neshcho d'lboko kolkoto samoto mag'osnichestvo. ..
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Ultimately you write alone. And ultimately you and you alone can judge your work. The judgment that a work is complete--this is what I meant to do, and I stand by it--can come only from the writer, and it can be made rightly only by a writer who's learned to read her own work. Group criticism is great training for self-criticism. But until quite recently no writer had that training, and yet they learned what they needed. They learned it by ..
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