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They are of the dream time. I don't understand it, I can't say it in words. Everything dreams. The play of form, of being, is the dreaming of substanc...more

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Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.

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Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we know though we may not know we know it. The ...more

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On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years, she read, and on Gethen there has never been a war." She stopped reading, to rest he...more

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Let us consider Elfland as a great national park, a vast and beautiful place where a person goes by himself, on foot, to get in touch with reality in ...more

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And I did nothing, nothing but try to hide from the horror of dying." He stopped, for saying the truth aloud was unendurable. It was not shame that st...more

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Orr slept. He dreamed. There was no rub.

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You don't speak of dreams as unreal. They exist. They leave a mark behind them.

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George, it's impossible to correct a defective reality-orientation overnight.

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We all have forests on our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.