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This concern, feebly called 'love of nature', seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus ha...more

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Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something mu...more

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You will die. You will not live forever. Nor will any man nor any thing. Nothing is immortal. But only to us is it given to know that we must die. And...more

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The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth an light, all that these do, and all that the beasts and green things do, is well done, and rightly ...more

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Death and life are the same thing-like the two sides of my hand, the palm and the back. And still the palm and the back are not the same...They can be...more

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She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.

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You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged...more

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Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. An...more

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Life rises out of death, death rises out of life, in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. An...more

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...All who ever died, live; they are reborn and have no end, nor will there ever be an end. All, save you. For you would not have death. You lost deat...more

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The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. ...more

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They did not use the sonic stunners but the foray gun, the ancient weapon that fires a set of metal fragments in a burst. They shot to kill him. He wa...more

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Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at their heels.

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I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can give back to the world all ...more

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The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the ...more