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It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“Science has been about a search for translation, convertibility, mobility of meaning, and universality – which I call reductionism only when one language (guess whose?) must be enforced as the standard for all translations and conversions.”
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“Det turde fremgå av overstående at under en kommende rettsak blir det for mitt vedkommende ikke tale om forsvar, men bare om angrep. Det er påtalemyndighetene som har valgt ut nettopp den trykksak de likte minst. Hvis de vil ha slagsmål, så skal de få det. Det hender at den slags ting fører til friskere luft og videre synspunkter. I så fall: Gud velsigne pornografien!”
― Uten en tråd
― Uten en tråd
“Light is the left hand of darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
and darkness the right hand of light.
Two are one, life and death, lying
together like lovers in kemmer,
like hands joined together,
like the end and the way.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“Og det slår meg en ting i at man uten videre godtar at en ung mann skal (og må) ha en tid hvor han lærer verden å kjenne, 'samler erfaringer', 'raser ut'... eller hva man nå vil kalle set. At han "gjør sine erfaringer" med kvinner, forutsetter at han har en partner, at man er to om det (eller minst to). Men hans partner? Herregud, hvor dypt det sitter i alle: at det som er tillatt for en ung mann, ja til og med en fordel, å ha 'verdenserfaring', det er for en tilsvarende ung pike ikke en fordel, men en skittflekk, en fornedrelse, noe som har merket henne for livet, noe som aldri mere kan vaskes av.”
― Uten en tråd
― Uten en tråd
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