Power inheres in a center. You're going to the center.
Pero tan inevitablemente como el futuro se convierte en pasado, el pasado se convierte en futuro. Renegar del pasado no es triunfar.
On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years, she read, and on Gethen there has never been a war. She stopped reading, to rest her eyes and because she was trying to train herself...
Old age generally involves pain and danger and inevitably ends in death. The acceptance of that takes courage. Courage deserves respect.
My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.
Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it.
Man's singularity is his divinity.
Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
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 an...
In trouble and from darkness you come, Ged, yet your coming is joy to me.
I think, Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all that I didn't do. All that I might have been and cou...
I talk about the gods; I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
He thought, I am living in a nightmare, from which from time to time I wake in sleep.
He thought of death, in that gap between the beginning of a step and its completion, and at the end of the step he stood on a new earth.
But even the most unmissionary soul, unless he pretend he has no emotions, is sometimes faced with a choice between commission and omission. 'What are they doing?' abruptly becomes, 'What are we doing...
A man does not make his destiny: he accepts it or denies it.
In this he saw that Ogion had been right: the shadow could not draw on his power, so long as he was turned against it.
As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
İkisi de ayrılık yüzünden acı çekmişlerdi, epeyce acı çekmişlerdi, ama ikisi de bağlılıklarından kaçarak acıyı reddetmeyi düşünmemişlerdi.
You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the Revolution. You can only be the Revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhe...