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It's a good place for a child, the woods. You don't learn much about people, but you learn silence. Patience. And that there's nothing much to fear in the wilderness--less than there is on a farm or in the city.
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To oppose something is to maintain it. They
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To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. Tormenbod
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Imagination is not a means of making money. It has no place in the vocabulary of profit-making.
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Words are the wings both intellect and imagination fly on.
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He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person's solitude which alone transcends it.
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solitude
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He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He
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Go to bed; tired is stupid. Tomorrow
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A story that has nothing but action and plot is a pretty poor affair; and some great stories have neither.
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all delight being in the present and its past, all truth too, and all fidelity in the word, the flesh, the present moment: for the future, however you look at it, contains only one sure thing and that is death. But the moment is unpredictable.
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Butun kucuk seyler anlamliydi, yalnizca butunu anlamsizdi.
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Consider: Anyone can turn his hand to anything. This sounds very simple, but its psychological effects are incalculable. The fact that everyone between seventeen and thirty-five or so is liable to be (as Nim put it) "tied down to childbearing," implies that no one is quite so thoroughly "tied down" here as women, elsewhere, are likely to be--psychologically or physically. Burden and privilege are shared out pretty equally; everybody has the..
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The sexual cycle averages 26 to 28 days (they tend to speak of it as 26 days, approximating it to the lunar cycle). For 21 or 22 days the individual is somer, sexually inactive, latent. On about the 18th day hormonal changes are initiated by the pituitary control and on the 22nd or 23rd day the individual enters kemmer, estrus. In this first phase of kemmer (Karh, secher) he remains completely androgynous. Gender, and potency, are not attai..
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Kemmer is not always played by pairs. Pairing seems to be the commonest custom, but in the kemmerhouses of towns and cities, groups may form and intercourse take place promiscuously among the males and females of the group. The furthest extreme from this practice is the custom of vowing kemmering (Karh. oskyommer), which is to all intents and purposes monogamous marriage. It has no legal status, but socially and ethically is an ancient and ..
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Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass." There"
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I wonder if men find it easier than women do to consider people not as bodies, as lives, but as numbers, figures, toys of the mind to be pushed about a battleground of the mind. This disembodiment gives pleasure, exciting them and freeing them to act for the sake of acting, for the sake of manipulating the figures, the game pieces. Love of country, or honor, or freedom, then, may be names they give that pleasure to justify it to the gods an..
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The idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on. Even
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He knew that he was very near achieving the General Temporal Theory that the Ioti wanted so badly for their spaceflight and their prestige. He knew also that he had not achieved it and might never do so. He had never admitted either fact clearly to anyone. Before he left Anarres, he had thought the thing was in his grasp. ...
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scientific-research
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The fundamental unity of the Sequence and Simultaneity points of view became plain; the concept of interval served to connect the static and the dynamic aspect of the universe. How could he have stared at reality for ten years and not seen it? There would be no trouble at all in going on. Indeed he had already gone on. He was there. He saw all that was to come in this first, seemingly casual glimpse of the method, given him by his understan..
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creative-process
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the social conscience completely dominates the individual conscience, instead of striking a balance with it. We don't cooperate--we . We fear being outcast, being called lazy, dysfunctional, egoizing. We fear ur neighbor's opinion more than we respect our own freedom of choice.
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freedom
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If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home. Takver
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Varligin pinarlari, hayattan daha derindir, olumden de...
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Onlardan korkuyorsun cunku olumden korkuyorsun hakli olarak: Cunku olum olum korkunctur ve olumden korkmak gerekir... Ve yasam da korkunc bir seydir... ve yasamdan hem korkulmali hem de yasam ovulmelidir.
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Bedap, who had been putting on weight at the waist and was serious about exercise, was trotting earnestly around the playing field. The others were sitting on a dusty bank under trees, getting their exercise verbally.
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It might derail and we'll all be killed. And if we do come to Aisnar? What's Aisnar? Mere hearsay.---"That's morbid," Kasimir said, glimpsing again the walls collapsing.---"No, exhilarating," his friend answered. "Takes a lot of work to hold the world together, when you look at it that way. But it's worthwhile. Building up cities, holding up the roofs by an act of fidelity. Not faith. Fidelity."
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Prevne was crawling with agents, he went, even if you went to buy a newspaper your identification was checked. "Easier to have it tattooed on, like you," said Kasimir, "Move your foot, Stefan."--"Move your fat rump, then."--" Oh, mine are German numbers, out of date. A few more wars and I'll run out of skin." --- "Shed it, then, like a snake."---No, they go right down to the bone." --- Shed your bones, then," Stefan said, *be a jellyfish. B..
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I hate the bigotry you believe in. But I'll try not to hate you.
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It's not death that allows us to understand one another, but poetry.
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Bir insanin yeniden dogabilmesi icin, olmesi gerekir Tenar. O taraftan goruldugu kadar zor bir sey degil bu." Ged" --
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figurines and souvenirs and kickshaws and mementos and gewgaws and bric-a-brac, everything either useless to begin with or ornamented so as to disguise its use; acres of luxuries, acres of excrement.
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Ini and Aevi were entranced by his description of a curriculum that included farming, cparnetry, sewage reclamation, printing, plumbing, road mending, playwriting, and al the other occupations of the adult community, and by his admission that nobody was ever punished for anything. "Though sometimes," he said, "they make you go away by yourself for a while." "But what," Oiie said abruptly, as if the question, long kept back, burst from him ..
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She was so elaborately and ostentatiously a female body that she seemed scarcely to be a human being.
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The people of Winter, who always live in the Year One, feel that progress is less important than presence.
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The duty of the individual is to accept No rule, t be the intitiator of his own acts, to be responsible. Only if he does so will the society live, and change, and adapt, and survive. We are not subjects of a State founded upon law, but membrs ofa society foudned upon revolution. Revolution is our obligationl our hope of evolution. The Revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all, or it is nothing. If it seen as ha..
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No sirve de nada tener una respuesta cuando la pregunta esta equivocada. [...] Lo desconocido [...], lo imprevisto, lo indemostrable... el fundamento de la vida. La ignorancia es el campo del pensamiento. Lo indemostrable es el campo de la accion. [...] ?Que se sabe? ?Que hay de cierto en este mundo, predecible, inevitable, lo unico cierto que se sabe del futuro de usted, y del mio? - Que moriremos. - Si. Solo una pregunta tiene respuesta, ..
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Lendas sobre previsoes sao comuns em toda a Familia Humana. Deuses falam, espiritos falam, computadores falam.
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Hay tres aspectos de la ambisexualidad que hemos vislumbrado o entrevisto apenas, y que quiza nunca entendamos del todo. Considerese: Cualquiera puede cambiarse en cualquiera de los dos sexos. Esto parece simple, pero los efectos psicologicos son incalculables. El hecho de que cualquiera [...] pueda sentirse "atado a la crianza de los ninos" [...] implica que nadie esta tan "atado" aqui como pueden estarlo, psicologicamente o fisicamente, ..
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La luz es la mano de la izquierda de la oscuridad, y la oscuridad es la mano derecha de la luz. Las dos son una, vida y muerte, juntas como amantes en kemmer, como manos unidas, como el termino y el camino (p. 256).
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ou have great power inborn in you, and you used that power wrongly, to work a spell over which you had no control, not knowing how that spell affects the balance of light and dark, life and death, good and evil. And you were moved to do this by pride and by hate. Is it any wonder the result was ruin? You summoned a spirit from the dead, but with it came one of the Powers of unlife. Uncalled it came from a place where there are no names. Evi..
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Arren vide sempre meglio i draghi che si libravano nella brezza mattutina, e il suo cuore trasali di gioia nell'assistere a quel volo. Vi era racchiusa tutta la gloria della mortalita. La bellezza dei draghi era fatta di una forza terribile, della piu totale ferocia e nel contempo della grazia della ragione.
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magic
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Shevek, meeting her eyes, knew that he had committed an unforgivable fault in forgetting her and, . . .
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Hic kimse cezayi kazanmaz, odulu de. Aklinizi hak etmek, kazanmak gibi fikirlerden arindirin, ancak o zaman dusunebileceksiniz.
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Solitude was his fate; he was trapped in his heredity.
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Vad hon hade borjat lara sig var hur tungt det kan kannas att bli fri. Friheten ar en maktig borda som ens sjal maste bara pa. Det ar inte sa latt. Det ar ingen gava man far, det ar ett val man gor, och det kan vara ett svart val. Vagen gar uppat mot ljuset men den tungt lastade resenaren kanske aldrig nar fram till vagens slut.
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