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“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?”
― Educated
― Educated
“What does it mean to be a self? I think, more than anything else, it means the ability to select between different possible outcomes in order to direct oneself toward a desired outcome: to be future-oriented. When every day is the same, when we are not presented with the necessity to choose between different possibilities, we say we don’t “feel alive”—and here I think we guess at what being alive actually is. It is the ability to choose. We live in choices.”
― The Mountain in the Sea
― The Mountain in the Sea
“everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait . . . there is nothing stronger than these two: patience and time, they will do it all.”
― War and Peace
― War and Peace
“I don’t mean to be unjust, Estraven-“
“Yet you are. It is strange. I am the only man in all Gethen that has trusted you entirely, and I am the only man in Gethen that you have refused to trust.”
He put his head in his hands. He said at last, “I’m sorry, Estraven.” It was both apology and admission.
“The fact is,” I said, “that you’re unable, or unwilling, to believe in the fact that I believe in you.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“Yet you are. It is strange. I am the only man in all Gethen that has trusted you entirely, and I am the only man in Gethen that you have refused to trust.”
He put his head in his hands. He said at last, “I’m sorry, Estraven.” It was both apology and admission.
“The fact is,” I said, “that you’re unable, or unwilling, to believe in the fact that I believe in you.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
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