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“I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“What is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, or giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry?...Is it simply self-love?”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“The heaviest single factor in one's life is whether one's born male or female. In most societies it determines one's expectations, activities, outlook, ethics, manners -- almost everything.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
― The Left Hand of Darkness
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