“I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
“Only in silence the word,
Only in dark the light,
Only in dying life:
Bright the hawk's flight
On the empty sky.
—The Creation of Éa”
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Only in dark the light,
Only in dying life:
Bright the hawk's flight
On the empty sky.
—The Creation of Éa”
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“Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet I would remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the western isles; and I would be content.”
― The Farthest Shore
― The Farthest Shore
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