

“WELL, I’M SUFFERING INSIDE! Anytime I see someone caring or sharing, I burn up inside with envy. You know why I feel comfortable only around the collapsed, the broken, the inebriated, the helpless and poor——‘CAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE WHAT I FEEL INSIDE!”
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“The king was pregnant.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness

“There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness

“To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. Thus proof is a word not often used among the Handdarata, who have chosen not to treat God as a fact, subject either to proof or to belief: and they have broken the circle, and go free.
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness

“One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
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