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“Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask."
"But you're the Answerers!"
"You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?"
"No––"
"To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
"But you're the Answerers!"
"You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?"
"No––"
"To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.”
― The Left Hand of Darkness
“Some day you will find out that there is far more happiness in another's happiness than in your own.”
― Père Goriot
― Père Goriot
“You have noticed that the truth comes into this world with two faces. One is sad with suffering, and the other laughs; but it is the same face, laughing or weeping. When people are already in despair, maybe the laughing face is better for them; and when they feel too good and are too sure of being safe, maybe the weeping face is better for them to see.”
― Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
― Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux
“I'm a great poet. I don't put my poems on paper: they consist of actions and feelings.”
― Père Goriot
― Père Goriot
“We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists”
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