Go into a dark bar for a bit and have a beer with Dionysios, every now and then. 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 t...
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Fulfillment, Shevek thought, is a function of time. The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal, The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, alway...
For to keep dark the mind of the mageborn, that is a dangerous thing.
Farfetching. What one is after when farfetching might be described as the intuitive perception of a moral entirety; and thus it tends to find expression not in rational symbols, but in metaphor.
Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.
Everyone is important, Sue said I learned that this summer.Was that the truth that the croaking voice had gasped at torture’s end? She didn’t believe it. Nobody was important. But she couldn’t say tha...
Every so often somebody writes a story or novel in the second person under the impression that it hasn’t been done before.
Ethical counsel from the Under White Mountain people, far down the eastern coast of the Inland Sea, was not very well received. They advised: ‘Do not fight these sick people, cure them with human beha...
Esta calamidad asolando las tierras. Las artes del hombre olvidadas. El cantor enmudecido. El ojo ciego. ¿Y entonces? Un falso rey reinando. Reinando para siempre. Y sobre los mismos súbditos para sie...
Dünyanın ne kadar güzel olduğunu görmenin yolu, onu ay gibi görmekten geçiyor. Yaşamın ne güzel olduğunu görmenin yolu ölümün bakış açısından bakmaktan geçiyor.
Dünya hep yenidir, kökleri ne kadar eski de olsa.
Do you see, Arren, how an act is not, as young men think, like a rock that one picks up and throws, and it hits or misses, and that's the end of it. When that rock is lifted, the earth is lighter; the...
Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.
Contrast J. D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye. The author adopts the childish view of adults as inhumanly powerful and uncomprehending, and never goes beyond it; and so his novel, published for adults,...
Can women operate as women in a male institution without becoming imitation men?
But was not a theory of which all the elements were provably true a simple tautology? In the region of the unprovable, or even the disprovable, lay the only chance for breaking out of the circle and g...
But nobody in one lifetime could read more than a fragment of what was here, this broken labyrinth of words, this shattered, interrupted story of a people and a world through the centuries, the millen...
But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.
But I liked the writing better. I could make it look beautiful. I could keep it. The spoken words just went out like the wind, and you always had to say them all over again to keep them alive. But the...