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The hunter’s eyes have already been blinded by the prey he intends to catch.

All of these emotions—and other emotions, such as fear, sorrow, happiness, and appreciation of beauty—were things that the Trisolaran civilization strove to avoid and eliminate. Such emotions caused the individual and society to be weak spiritually and did not help with survival in the harsh environment of this world. The mental states that Trisolarans needed were calmness and numbness.

I started the fire, but I couldn’t control how it burnt.

Desperation turned me from a pacifist into an extremist.

Does it represent the yearning for order, or the surrender to chaos?

Lackadaisical: lacking enthusiasm and determination.


Lazy implies the deliberate avoidance of work in order to spare oneself effort. Lackadaisical implies lack of purpose. The lazy person has a purpose. The lackadaisical person is content to let things happen.

Anything sufficiently weird must be fishy.

The more transparent something was, the more mysterious it seemed.

But she was a woman. A woman should be like water, able to flow over and around anything.