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“Stripping's bad form, these days," he said. "It's lost all meaning. People do it just to punctuate a conversation.”
― Schismatrix Plus
― Schismatrix Plus
“She was the woman in the table.”
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
― The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia
“Death never gave meaning to life: it was always the other way round.”
― Oceanic
― Oceanic
“If I have to live with it, then how can it be unbearable?”
― The Beauty
― The Beauty
“To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of proof. Thus proof is a word not often used among the Handdarata, who have chosen not to treat God as a fact, subject either to proof or to belief: and they have broken the circle, and go free.
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
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