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‘She might decide to take over the planet or something, but I’m trying to keep a tight rein on that kind of stuff.
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
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“Long before art and science and philosophy arose, consciousness had but one function: not to merely implement motor commands, but to mediate between commands in opposition. In a submerged body starving for air, it’s difficult to imagine two imperatives more opposed than the need to breathe and the need to hold your breath. As one Prismatic told me, “Put yourself in one of those things, and tell me you aren’t more intensely conscious than you’ve ever been in your life.”
― Echopraxia
― Echopraxia
“I didn't get where I am by having reasonable goals”
― Ancillary Justice
― Ancillary Justice
“Objectivity is just male subjectivity.”
― The House of Sleep
― The House of Sleep
“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by piece, or be written again in another language. Ancient cures for diseases will reveal themselves once more. Mathematical discoveries glimpsed and lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady, that if all of Archimedes had been hiding in the great library of Alexandria, we would be at a loss for a corkscrew?”
― Arcadia
― Arcadia
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