Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

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The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignora — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Truth is a matter of the imagination. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
I expect it will turn out that sexual intercourse is possible between Gethenian double-sexed and Hainish-norm one-sexed — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Of course there is no veneer, the process is one of growth, and primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same t — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farm — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
His themes were not pride and love at all, though he used the words perpetually; as he used them they meant self-praise — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Though Argaven might be neither sane nor shrewd, he had had long practice in the evasions and challenges and rhetorical — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
To say that an Orgota government fell means, of course, only that one group of Commensals replaced another group of Comm — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
The First Mobile, if one is sent, must be warned that unless he is very self-assured, or senile, his pride will suffer. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
I suspect that the distinction between a maternal and a paternal instinct is scarcely worth making; the parental instinc — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
The king was pregnant. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Why are my sons followed thus by darkness?'...'Because they were born in the house of flesh, therefore death follows at — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
It is yin and yang. Light is the left hand of darkness... how did it go? Light, dark. Fear, courage. Cold, warmth. Femal — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
Somewhere in the notes Estraven wrote during our trek across the Gobrin Ice he wonders why his companion is ashamed to c — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end. — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imag — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness
To be an atheist is to maintain God. His existence or his non-existence, it amounts to much the same, on the plane of pr — Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness