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“One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands out and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun--which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so. And one knows it sometimes when one stands by oneself in a wood at sunset and the mysterious deep gold stillness slanting through and under the branches seems to be saying slowly again and again something one cannot quite hear, however much one tries. Then sometimes the immense quiet of the dark blue at night with the millions of stars waiting and watching makes one sure; and sometimes a sound of far-off music makes it true; and sometimes a look in someone's eyes.”
― Secret Garden
― Secret Garden
“Like I told you, I’m not interested. I think the party is mostly a means of advancing one’s career anyway.”
“Exactly, and your decision not to join is a political decision.”
“Well, then my political decision is to not be political."
“Exactly, that’s a political statement. You are expressing your opinion about current politics. Except you are political, everything we do is political…”
“It’s a practical decision, not a political one… We don’t have to analyze everyone’s lives for motives.”
“I wasn’t saying it’s wrong… I was just pointing out that your life says something about your politics whether you think about them or not. You can either just let that happen or you can think about the kind of choices you want to make.”
“I’d like to continue to make my choices because they fit my life rather than out of some sense of ideology… In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it’s a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn’t describe the real world…”
“That’s as pure a description of an applied political theory as any I’ve ever heard.”
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“Exactly, and your decision not to join is a political decision.”
“Well, then my political decision is to not be political."
“Exactly, that’s a political statement. You are expressing your opinion about current politics. Except you are political, everything we do is political…”
“It’s a practical decision, not a political one… We don’t have to analyze everyone’s lives for motives.”
“I wasn’t saying it’s wrong… I was just pointing out that your life says something about your politics whether you think about them or not. You can either just let that happen or you can think about the kind of choices you want to make.”
“I’d like to continue to make my choices because they fit my life rather than out of some sense of ideology… In my experience ideology is a lot like religion; it’s a belief system and most people cling to it long after it becomes clear that their ideology doesn’t describe the real world…”
“That’s as pure a description of an applied political theory as any I’ve ever heard.”
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“Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.”
― The Lathe of Heaven
― The Lathe of Heaven
“I still feel haunted,' she said. 'I thought it would go away. I thought if I faced it, it would all go away.'
'It doesn't go away. Ever. But you get better at it.'
'At what?'
'At being haunted,' Avasarala said.”
― Caliban’s War
'It doesn't go away. Ever. But you get better at it.'
'At what?'
'At being haunted,' Avasarala said.”
― Caliban’s War
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