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Once he told me that, being so slow-thinking, he had to guide his acts by a general intuition of which way his “luck” was running, and that this intuition rarely failed him.

I never had a gift but one, to know when the great wheel gives to a touch, to know and act… a great delight it was to feel that certainty again, to know that I could steer my fortune and the world’s chance like a bobsled down the steep dangerous hour.

It is terrible thing, this kindness that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have.

He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had met him on Earth, and on Hain, and on Ollul. I expect to meet him in Hell.

If civilization has an opposite, it is war.

A man wants his virility regarded, a woman wants her femininity appreciated, however indirect and subtle the indications of regard and appreciation. On Winter they will not exist. One is respected and judged only as a human being. It is an appalling experience.

Burden and privilege are shared out pretty equally; everybody has the same risk to run or choice to make. Therefore nobody here is quite so free as a free male anywhere else.

“I asked if these two psychopaths could not be cured. “Cured?” Goss said. “Would you cure a singer of his voice?”