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Until then I had rejected him, refused him his own reality. He had been quite right to say that he, the only person on Gethen who trusted him, was the...more

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Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

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Ged saw all these things from outside and apart, alone, and his heart was very heavy in him, though he would not admit to himself that he was sad. As ...more

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Oh, Hank," Susan whispered, "their wings are furry.""Oh, James," Harriet whispered, "their hands are kind.

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I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps.

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I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.

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I expect it will turn out that sexual intercourse is possible between Gethenian double-sexed and Hainish-norm one-sexed human beings, though such inte...more