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Mok'r i nav'sen, Ged se svi sred kapeshchite khrasti, kato se chudeshe kak'v smis'l ima da pritezhavash vlast, ako si tv'rde m'd'r, za da ia izpolzvash, i s'zhaliavashe, che ne beshe otish'l chirak pri onzi star gadatel na vremeto ot kotlovinata, k'deto pone shcheshe da spi sukh
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The admirable is inexplicable.
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What's wrong with pleasure, Takver? why don't you want it?" "Nothing's wrong with it. And I do want it. Only I don't need it. And if I take what I don't need, I'll never get to what I do need."
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Writing about our life in the House of Arcamand in the City State of Etra, I fall back into it and see it as I saw it then, from inside and from below, with nothing to compare it to, and as if it were the only way things could possibly be. Children see the world that way. So do most slaves. Freedom is largely a matter of seeing that there are alternatives.
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The quality and virtue of a slave is invisibility. The powerless need to be invisible even to themselves.
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Women used and did what there was to use and do, but men shunned and despised a great many things, such as wicker chairs and cooking and storytelling, depriving themselves of many skills and pleasures, in order to prove that they weren't women. Wouldn't it be better to prove it by doing, rather than by not doing?
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What is his purpose, then?" "I don't know. 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."
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Elestirmenler Tolkien'i 'basitlestirmeciliginden', Orta Dunya'nin sakinlerini iyiler ve kotuler diye ikiye ayirmasindan oturu cok sucladilar. Tolkien gercekten de bunu yapiyor. [...] oykuye ruhsal bir yolculuk olarak baktiginizda ise cok farkli ve tuhaf bir seyle karsilasiyorsunuz. O zaman karsiniza cikan, her birinin kara bir golgesi olan parlak figurler toplulugu. Elf'lere karsi Ork'lar. Aragorn'a karsi Kara Suvari. Gandalf'a karsi Saruma..
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fantazi
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inspriational
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I'm a lazy man. With lazy dreams. I need Tai to wake me up, make me vibrate, irritate me. I need my angry woman, my unforgiving friend.
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marriage
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Scholarly translations of the Tao Te Ching as a manual for rulers use a vocabulary that emphasizes the uniqueness of the Taoist "sage," his masculinity, his authority. This language is perpetuated, and degraded, in most popular versions. I wanted a Book of the Way accessible to a present-day, unwise, unpowerful, and perhaps unmale reader, not seeking esoteric secrets, but listening for a voice that speaks to the soul. I would like that read..
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Gercek kardeslik paylasilan acida basliyor. | Mulksuzler
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As he came to the bank Ogion, waiting, reached out his hand and clasping the boy's arm whispered to him his true name: Ged.
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Interruptions were sometimes more frequent than statements. The process, compared to a well-managed executive conference, was a slab of raw beef compared to a wiring diagram. Raw beef, however, functions better than a wiring diagram would, in its place -- inside a living animal.
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You can see the old cities still everywhere. The bones and bricks go to dust, but the little pieces of plastic never do - they never adapt either.
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It was the most beautiful view Shevek had ever seen. The tenderness and vitality of the colors, the mixture of rectilinear human design and powerful, proliferate natural contours, the variety and harmony of the elements, gave an impression of complex wholeness such as he had never seen, except, perhaps, foreshadowed on a small scale in certain serene and thoughtful human faces.
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Desar's chosen field in mathematics was so esoteric that nobody in the Institute or the Math Federation could really check on his progress. That was precisely why he had chosen it.
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The autumn stars had come out, incredible in number and brilliance, twinkling and almost blinking because of the dust stirred up by the earthquake and the wind, so that the whole sky seemed to tremble, a shaking of diamond chips, a scintillation of sunlight on a black sea.
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Crafty writers...don't allow Exposition to form Lumps. They break up the information, grind it fine, and make it into bricks to build the story with.
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The moths look like souls in the underworld,
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Bir kabusta yasiyorum, diye gecirdi icinden, arada bir uykumda ayilabildigim bir kabusta.
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Estraven asleep looked a little stupid, like everyone asleep.
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He also had a kind of helpless politeness, which I took advantage of. He was quite incapable of refusing a direct request, and so, because I asked him to, he invited me to several parties during the month I stayed in Hemgogn.
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The moment was gone; he saw it going. He did not try to hold on to it. He knew he was part of it, not it of him. He was in its keeping.
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Having replaced instinct with language, society, and culture, we are the only species that depends on teaching and learning. We aren't human without them. In them is true power. But are they the occupations of the rich and mighty?
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Nothing is boring if you are aware of it. It may be irritating, but it is not boring. If it is pleasant the pleasure will not fail so long as you are aware of it. Being aware is the hardest work the soul can do, I think.
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As the virtual world of electronic communication becomes the world many of us inhabit all the time, in turning to imaginative literature we may not be seeking mere reassurance nor be impelled by mere nostalgia. To enter with heart and mind into the world of the imagination may be to head deliberately and directly toward, or back toward, engagement with the real world. In one of T. S. Eliot's poems a bird sings, "Mankind cannot bear very muc..
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she had never known who she was at all, except sometimes for a moment in meditation, when her I am became It is, and she breathed the stars
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Nothing in the world has tentacles or fins or paws or claws. Nothing in the world soars. Nothing swims. Nothing purrs, barks, growls, roars, chitters, trills, or cries repeatedly two notes, a descending fourth, for three months of the year. There are no months of the year. There is no moon. There is no year.
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Light is the left hand of darkness.
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A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you give it your mind, or your heart unless you put your heart in it. It won't do the work for you. To read a good novel well is to follow it, to act it, to feel it, to become it--everything short of writing it, in fact. Reading is a collaboration, an act of participation. No wonder not everybody is up to it.
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I think we shall have trouble learning how to lie, having for so long practiced the art of going round and round the truth without ever lying about it, or reaching it either.
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'A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.'
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This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger longs for the earth and waters of his home, seeing and yearning over the doorsill of his house, the table where he has eaten, the branches outside the window of the room where he has slept. Only in dreams do any but the great Mages realize this magic of going home.
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The experience was disagreeable. I began to feel like an atheist praying.
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But if modesty is interpreted not as diffidence or self-effacingness, but as non-overweening, a realistic assessment of the job to be done and one's ability to do it, then you might say the chief virtue of excellent artists is their modesty...But knowing your limits and going to them isn't arrogance. It's greatness of spirit.
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And she told me the same thing, she said that when I came back in the winter, she was going to miss missing me....
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Life in the auntring, or for a settled man, is repetitive, as I said; and so it can be dull. Nothing new happens. The mind always wants new happenings.
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If there are frontiers between the civilised and the barbaric, between the meaningful and the unmeaning, they are not lines on a map nor are they regions of the earth. They are boundaries of the mind alone.
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Nie se kriem ot shingite. No se kriem s'shcho i ot onova, koeto sme bili. Razbirash li me, Falk? Zhiveem dobre v nashite K'shchi -- dostat'chno dobre. No pozvoliavame da ni upravliava strakh't. Bilo e vreme, kogato sme leteli s korabi mezhdu zvezdite, a sega ne smeem da se otdalechim na poveche ot stotina mili ot domovete si. S'khraniavame ne poveche ot zr'ntse poznanie i ne pravim nishcho s nego. A niakoga sme go izpolzvali za da pletem sh..
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Collaborative workshops and writers' peer groups hadn't been invented when I was young. They're a wonderful invention. They put the writer into a community of people all working at the same art, the kind of group musicians and painters and dancers have always had.
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dancers
musicians
writing-groups
writers
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It is our suffering that brings us together.
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and none could cry Murder, but only Justice done.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it.
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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.
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