“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
“It is in this darkness that I have found all light— somehow become so bright, a shooting star on a stormy night.”
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“They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions.”
― Pebble in the Sky
― Pebble in the Sky
“The ancient dialogue between reason and the senses is almost always more interestingly and passionately resolved in favor of the senses.”
― An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
― An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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