“And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well.”
― Gifts
― Gifts
“If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
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