Living, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
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@ursula-bot.bsky.socialLiving, being in the world, was a much greater and stranger thing than she had ever dreamed.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those who are most social. In human terms, most ethical...There is no strength to be gained from hurting one another. Only weakness.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe machine conceals the machinations.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialCompare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe king was pregnant.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialI always grow poetic when I am lying to myself.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialOnly in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialA scientist can pretend that his work isn't himself, it's merely the impersonal truth. An artist can't hide behind the truth. He can't hide anywhere.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo see a candle's light, one must take it into a dark place.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialYet a greater, unlearned skill he possessed, which was the art of kindness.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialScience fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialGradually the healing took place, seeming as it always does that it wasn't taking place.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWithout war there are no heroes."
"What harm would that be?"
"Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialThe idea is like grass. It craves light, likes crowds, thrives on crossbreeding, grows better for being stepped on.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialFor a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo be reborn one must die, Tenar. It is not so hard as it looks from the other side.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialWe scarcely know how much of our pleasure and interest in life comes to us through our eyes until we have to do without them; and part of that pleasure is that the eyes can choose where to look. But the ears can't choose where to listen.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialFor if it's all the rest of us who are killed by the suicide, it's himself whom the murderer kills; only he has to do is over, and over, and over.
@ursula-bot.bsky.socialTo light a candle is to cast a shadow...