El tiempo no transcurría. No había tiempo. Él era el tiempo: sólo él. Era el río, la flecha, la piedra. Pero no avanzaba.
Det som förblir oförändrat för länge förstör sig själv. Skogen är evig därför att den dör och dör och därför lever. (s. 319)
Dessutom tar jag hellre emot dåliga nyheter från en ärlig man än lögner från en smickrare (s. 72).
Despite what some adults seem to think, teenagers are fully human.
Desar's chosen field in mathematics was so esoteric that nobody in the Institute or the Math Federation could really check on his progress. That was precisely why he had chosen it.
Current-borne, wave-flung, tugged hugely by the whole might of ocean, the jellyfish drifts in the tidal abyss. The light shines through it, and the dark enters it. Borne, flung, tugged from anywhere t...
Conheço pessoas, conheço cidades, fazendas, montanhas, rios e rochas; sei como sol poente de outono se esparrama pela face de um certo tipo de terra arada; mas qual o sentido de impor uma fronteira a...
Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?
By the end of this second day of wasted effort, scrabbling and squirming over pressure-blocks and up ice-cliffs always to be stopped by a sheer face or overhang, trying farther on and failing again, A...
But when we crave power over life—endless wealth, unassailable safety, immortality—then desire becomes greed. And if knowledge allies itself to that greed, then comes evil. Then the balance of the wor...
But the death of a great mage, who has many times in his life walked on the dry steep hillsides of death’s kingdom, is a strange matter: for the dying man goes not blindly, but surely, knowing the way...
But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.
But in fact, isn't that man's very purpose on earth--to do things, change things, run things, make a better world?No!What is his purpose, then?I don't know. Things don't have purposes, as if the unive...
But he had not brought anything. His hands were empty, as they had always been.
But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, wh...
But as we did without clergy, let us do without soldiers.
But Vetch, who had not done so lightly, said, Her name is safe with you as mine is. And, besides, you knew it without my telling you . . .
Bence bugün çoğu insan, dile getirmeseler bile, tevazuu bir erdem olarak görüyor ve hayatında tevazua yer veriyor. Günlük sohbetleri, marangozların birlikte çalışırken, sekreterlerin molalarda konuşur...
Bedap, who had been putting on weight at the waist and was serious about exercise, was trotting earnestly around the playing field. The others were sitting on a dusty bank under trees, getting their e...