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The Left Hand of Darkness

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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“The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even—if you will—eccentricity.”
― Joseph Brodsky

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“Words belong in contexts, not pegged out like biological specimens.”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage

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“he came awake like someone struggling to swim to the surface of a lake of laudanum, where the strongest delights were the deepest and there was nothing above but cold and fear and duty.”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage

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“the pleasure of knowing secrets was doubled by telling them to people.”
― Philip Pullman, La Belle Sauvage

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“They made it plain to everyone, however, and above all to the king himself, that although he had plenty of troops, he did not have many men.”
― Herodotus, The Histories

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