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“She was staring at the low ceiling, and I had the feeling that there was another Severian there, the kind and even noble Severian who existed only in Dorcas’s mind. All of us, I suppose, when we think we are talking most intimately to someone else, are actually addressing an image we have of the person to whom we believe we speak.”
― The Sword of the Lictor
― The Sword of the Lictor
“A legend, a lie, and a likelihood make a tradition’?”
― Shadow & Claw
― Shadow & Claw
“Women believe—or at least often pretend to believe—that all our tenderness for them springs from desire; that we love them when we have not for a time enjoyed them, and dismiss them when we are sated, or to express it more precisely, exhausted. There is no truth in this idea, though it may be made to appear true. When we are rigid with desire, we are apt to pretend a great tenderness in the hope of satisfying that desire; but at no other time are we in fact so liable to treat women brutally, and so unlikely to feel any deep emotion but one.”
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“That we are capable only of being what we are remains our unforgivable sin.”
― The Claw of the Conciliator
― The Claw of the Conciliator
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