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"'Maybe they are less aware of the gap between men and beasts, being more occupied with the likenesses, the links, the whole of which living things are a part.'...Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light. Two are one, life and death, lying together like lovers in kemmer, like hands joined together, like the end and the way." (pg. 233)

"'The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.'" (pg. 70)

"I asked if these two psychopaths could be cured. 'Cured?' Goss said. 'Would you cure a singer of his voice?'" (pg. 62)

"Terrans tend to feel they've got to get ahead, make progress. The people of Winter, who always live in the Year One, feel that progress is less important than presence." (pg. 50)

"That I was not dueling with Argaven, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact." (pg. 33)