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En un espacio sin tiempo no podían existir las costumbres. (…)
En un espacio donde el tiempo fluye libremente en todas direcciones a la vez, las costumbres no pueden nacer.

No friendship held; even Tirin was too self-centered, and lately too moody, to reassert the old bond — if Shevek had wanted it.

Era cierto que la música creaba una especie de adicción, una emoción ininterrumpida, una resonancia multicolor producida por los instrumentos.

para el creador no hay ninguna pobreza, ningún lugar pobre, indiferente.

For when we encounter a body that agrees with ours, we experience an affect or feeling of joy-passion, although we do not yet adequately know what it has in common with us. Sadness, which arises from our encounter with a body that does not agree with ours, never induces us to form a common notion; but joy-passion, as an increase of the power of acting and of comprehending, does bring this about

El silencio volvió a apoderarse del salón. Era un silencio parecido al vacío de un cartel publicitario en blanco.

You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.

Yet from that acceptance of transience he evolved his vast theory, wherein what is most changeable is shown to be fullest of eternity, and your relationship to the river, and the river’s relationship to you and to itself, turns out to be at once more complex and more reassuring than a mere lack of identity.

He would most likely not have embarked on that years-long enterprise had he not had profound assurance that return was possible, even though he himself might not return; that indeed the very nature of the voyage, like a circumnavigation of the globe, implied return. You shall not go down twice to the same river, nor can you go home again. That he knew; indeed it was the basis of his view of the world.

He would always be one for whom the return was as important as the voyage out. To go was not enough for him, only half enough; he must come back. In such a tendency was already foreshadowed, perhaps, the nature of the immense exploration he was to undertake into the extremes of the comprehensible.

Entre nosotros había un evidente intercambio de vida. Al tiempo que ofrecíamos algo recibíamos algo. Era un tipo de intercambio que solo podía producirse en un tiempo y en un lugar limitados. Antes o después disminuiría y desaparecería, pero perduraría en la memoria. Los recuerdos podían reavivar el pasado, y el arte, de ser verdadero, podía sublimar esos recuerdos y ayudar a conservarlos para siempre

A la mayor parte de los actos se les puede dar un sentido o encontrar una justificación. Si te digo la verdad, yo mismo no tengo plena confianza en mí.

La gente se acostumbra a muchas cosas. Si, además, uno está al límite, puede hacerlo con una facilidad pasmosa.

Much would yet happen, but he would not be taken off guard a second time, knocked down, defeated. Defeat, surrender, had its raptures. Beshun herself might never want any joy beyond them. And why should she? It was she, in her freedom, who had set him free.

Puedes seleccionar a quién meter en tu vida y a quién rechazar, pero no dejes nunca de incluir a un porcentaje de personas difíciles. Evita querer tener sólo amigos o familiares perfectos porque entonces te quedarás solo». Tiene que haber un cupo de personas difíciles en tu vida a las que tolerar y aprovechar para aprender de ello.

In Pravic it made no sense for a man to say that he had “had” a woman. The word which came closest in meaning to “fuck,” and had a similar secondary usage as a curse, was specific: it meant rape. The usual verb, taking only a plural subject, can be translated only by a neutral word like copulate. It meant something two people did, not something one person did, or had.

sentía algo parecido a una alegría pura no enturbiada por nada

A veces un pequeño movimiento del corazón provoca un gran cambio y otras veces sucede justo lo contrario.

Beshun, expert in delight, took him into the heart of sexuality, where there is no rancor and no ineptitude, where the two bodies striving to join each other annihilate the moment in their striving, and transcend the self, and transcend time.

Shevet had given him what he had to give, and he had accepted the gift, though for a long time he never weighed it or considered its nature.

“I haven’t really ever known anybody. You see how I didn’t understand you. I’m cut off. Can’t get in. Never will. It would be silly for me to think about a partnership. That sort of thing is for… for human beings…”
(...) Gimar put her hand on his shoulder. She did not reassure him. She did not tell him he was like everybody else. She said, “I’ll never know anyone like you again, Shev. I never will forget you.”

Yet it was queer how proud you felt of what you got done this way — all together — what satisfaction it gave.

The trouble with you, Shev, is you don’t say anything till you’ve saved up a whole truckload of damned heavy brick arguments, and then you dump them all out and never look at the bleeding body mangled beneath the heap—

Quizá las caras no reflejen muchos sentimientos, pero los ojos son realmente una ventana del corazón.

And that responsibility is our freedom. To avoid it, would be to lose our freedom. Would you really like to live in a society where you have no responsibility and no freedom, no choice, only the false option of obedience to the law, or disobedience followed by punishment? Would you really want to go live in a prison?

Are we kept here by force? What force — what laws, governments, police? None. Simply our own being, our nature as Odonians. It’s your nature to be Tirin, and my nature to be Shevek, and our common nature to be Odonians, responsible to one another.

Forbidden? Nonorganic word. Who forbids? You’re externalizing the integrative function itself,” Shevek said, leaning forward and speaking with intensity. “Order is not ‘orders.’ We don’t leave Anarres, because we are Anarres. Being Tirin, you can’t leave Tirin’s skin. You might like to try being somebody else to see what it’s like, but you can’t. But are you kept from it by force?

They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.

Algunas cosas te roban el tiempo y otras te lo dan. Es importante que el tiempo se convierta en tu aliado.

They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question what was not questioned.