Self-satisfaction with the inability to remain conscious when faced with printed matter seems misplaced.
Saying that, he was suddenly himself again, despite his lunatic hair and eyes: a man whose personal dignity went so deep as to be nearly invisible...It was more than diginity. Integrity? Wholeness? Li...
SEEN ACROSS TEN MILES OF sunlit water, Lorbanery was green, green as the bright moss by a fountain’s rim. Nearby, it broke up into leaves, and tree-trunks, and shadows, and roads, and houses, and the...
Pravic was not a good swearing language. It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.
Perhaps women have more complicated selves. They know how to do more than one thing at one time. That comes late to men. If at all.
Ours is only a little power, seems like, next to theirs, Moss said. But it goes down deep. It's all roots. It's like an old blackberry thicket. And a wizard's power's like a fir tree, maybe, great and...
Our daily life in the auntring was repetitive. On the ship, later, I learned that people who live in artificially complicated situations call such a life 'simple.' I never knew anybody, anywhere I hav...
Our border now is no line between two hills, but the line our planet makes in circling the Sun.
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting ... Instead of seeing birth as an awakening from blank nonbeing and fetal incompletion into the child's fullness of being, and seeing maturity as a narrowing,...
Onlardan korkuyorsun çünkü ölümden korkuyorsun haklı olarak: Çünkü ölüm ölüm korkunçtur ve ölümden korkmak gerekir... Ve yaşam da korkunç bir şeydir... ve yaşamdan hem korkulmalı hem de yaşam övülmeli...
One day is the day for moving on, and overnight, the next day, there is no more good in moving on, because you have come where you were going to.
On the second night all creatures woke, and the sleepless cricket was silent suddenly. The thunder spoke from ridge to ridge, from canyon to canyon, far, then nearer. Darkness split wide open to revea...
Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid...
Old age isn’t a state of mind. It’s an existential situation.
Old age isn’t a state of mind. It’s an existential situation. Would you say to a person paralyzed from the waist down, Oh, you aren’t a cripple! You’re only as paralyzed as you think you are! My cousi...
Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war. Of those two things, you have...
Não sou servo de ninguém. Um homem deve projetar a própria sombra...
Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.
Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can’t step into the same river twice. Life – evolution – the whole universe of space/time, matter/energy – existence itself – is essentially c...
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 descendi...