Fiction offers the best means of understanding people different from oneself, short of experience. Actually, fiction can be lots better than experience, because it's a manageable size, it's comprehens...
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...
Estraven stood there in harness beside me looking at that magnificent and unspeakable desolation. 'I'm glad I have lived to see this,' he said.I have felt as he did. It is good to have an end to journ...
Did you ever happen to think, Dr. Haber, he said, quietly enough but stuttering a little, that there, there might be other people who dream the way I do? That reality's being changed out from under us...
Det som förblir oförändrat för länge förstör sig själv. Skogen är evig därför att den dör och dör och därför lever. (s. 319)
Despite what some adults seem to think, teenagers are fully human.
Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
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 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 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 . . .
But I think we will have trouble learning how to lie, having for so long practiced the art of going round an round the truth without ever lying about it, or reaching it either.
Between a man and a woman there is what they want there to be between them... each, and both.
Be still! the Head Isle-Man said roughly, for he knew, as did most of them, that a wizard may have subtle ways of telling the truth, and may keep the truth to himself, but that if he says a thing the...
Art isn’t explanation. Art is what an artist does, not what an artist explains.
And yet, I wonder if it isn’t all a misunderstanding—this grasping after happiness, this fear of pain. . . . If instead of fearing it and running from it, one could . . . get through it, go beyond it...
And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful l...
Akıllıya soru gerekmez; aptal ise boşuna sorar. -38