The light is the left hand of darkness
The life of every man is in the Center of Time, for all were seen in the seeing of Meshe, and are in his eye. We are the pupils of his Eye... Our doing is his Seeing: our being is his Knowing.
The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means. Orr
The discovery brings him victory, the kind of victory that isn’t the end of a battle but the beginning of a life.
The author is not impartial. Dystopia is not tragedy.
The Gethenians do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imaginations to accept. After all, what is the first question we ask about a newborn baby? ....there is no divi...
So many of his problems were of a kind that other people did not understand, that he got used to working them out for himself, in silence.
She touched his face and tied his hair back for him. Her hands were cool. He had never felt anything pleasanter in all his life than the touch of her hands. He reached out for her hand. She was not th...
Question 14: Are you living your secret desires? Floored again. I finally didn’t check Yes, Somewhat, or No, but wrote in I have none, my desires are flagrant.
Progress means nothing to presence.
Prevne was crawling with agents, he went, even if you went to buy a newspaper your identification was checked. Easier to have it tattooed on, like you, said Kasimir, Move your foot, Stefan.—Move your...
People who sleep only two or three hours in the twenty-four are always geniuses. The ones you hear about, anyway. Never mind if the ones you don't hear about are dolts. Insomnia is genius. It must be....
Partnership was a voluntarily constituted federation like any other. So long as it worked, it worked, and if it didn’t work it stopped being. It was not an institution but a function. It had no sancti...
Outside the locked room is the landscape of time, in which the spirit may, with luck and courage, construct the fragile, makeshift, improbable roads and cities of fidelity: a landscape inhabitable by...
Our entire pattern of socio-sexual interaction is nonexistent here. They cannot play the game. They do not see one another as men or women. This is almost impossible for our imagination to accept. Wha...
One of the most dangerous is the implication that civilization, being artificial, is unnatural: that it is the opposite of primitiveness… Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, an...
Once you are there, once you walk through the wall with me, then as I see it you are one of us. We are responsible to you and you to us; you become an Anarresti, with the same options as all the other...
OfferingI made a poem goingto sleep last night, wokein sunlight, it was clean forgotten.If it was any good, godsof the great darknesswhere sleep goes and fartherdeath goes, you not named,then as true...
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 s...
No, brother, I'm sane. What drives people crazy is trying to live outside reality. Reality is terrible. It can kill you. Given time, it certainly will kill you. The reality is pain- you said that! But...