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“This sense of the brain’s remarkable plasticity, its capacity for the most striking adaptations, not least in the special (and often desperate) circumstances of neural or sensory mishap, has come to dominate my own perception of my patients and their lives. So much so, indeed, that I am sometimes moved to wonder whether it may not be necessary to redefine the very concepts of “health” and “disease,” to see these in terms of the ability of the organism to create a new organization and order, one that fits its special, altered disposition and needs, rather than in the terms of a rigidly defined “norm.”
― An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
― An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales
“Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her with filial fondness. To-night at least, I would be her guest-as I was her child; my mother would lodge me without money and without price.”
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“Not, perhaps, so elegant as your Berkeley Square, but sometimes, even here, you can hear a Nightingale sing.”
― The Devil's Alternative
― The Devil's Alternative
“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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