Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. The event is real now, but once it’s then, its continuing reality is entirely up to us, dependent on our energy and honest...
Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting.
One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience. Back
Oh fool, oh desolation! said the Prince of Kansas. Ill give you ten women to accompany you to the Place of the Lie, with lutes and flutes and tambourines and contraceptive pills. I'll give you five go...
När vi övat något blir våra handlingar starka och når djupt. När vi inte känner rätta kursen blir vi förvirrade. Går vilse, förslösar vårt arv.
Now, what is forbidden to the summoner, or any wizard, is to call a living spirit. We can call to them, yes. We can send to them a voice or a presentment, a seeming, of ourself. But we do not summon t...
Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his brief broken life came within mind's reach and made a whole again. He knew once more, at last, afte...
Not even need and love can defeat fate, Lavinia. Aeneas' gift is to know his fate, what he must do, and do it. In spite of need. In spite of love.
No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.
Negare il passato significa negare il futuro. Un uomo non costruisce il proprio destino. Lo accetta o lo contrasta.
My world, my Earth, is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and gobbled and fought until there was nothing left, and then we died. We controlled neither appetite nor violence;...
Meaning in art isn’t the same as meaning in science.
Master, said Ged, I cannot take your name from you, not being strong enough, and I cannot trick your name from you, not being wise enough. So I am content to stay here, and learn or serve, whatever yo...
Lloró por los años que había perdido esclavizada a un mal inútil. Lloraba de dolor, porque era libre.
Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way.
Let age be age. Let your old relative or old friend be who they are. Denial serves nothing, no one, no purpose.
Le Guin’s Rule: One person cannot do two fulltime jobs, but two persons can do three fulltime jobs — if they honestly share the work.
Karhiders discuss sexual matters freely, and talk about kemmer with both reverence and gusto, but they are reticent about discussing perversion - at least they were with me. Excessive prolongation of...
Kardeş bile rahatlatamaz insanı kötü saatte, karanlıkta, duvarın dibinde.
It’s always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don’t make changes, don’t risk disapproval, don’t upset your syndics. It’s always easiest to let yourself be gove...