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  1. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Word for World is Forest

    The fact is, the only time a man is really and entirely a man is when he's just had a woman or just killed another man. That wasn't original, he'd read it in some old books; but it was true. That was why he liked to imagine scenes like that. Even if the creechies weren't actually men.
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  2. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Word for World is Forest

    Dünya hep yenidir, kökleri ne kadar eski de olsa.
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  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Word for World is Forest

    In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest! one to be sure.
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  4. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Word for World is Forest

    For the kindest of them was as far out of touch, as unreachable, as the crudest.
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  5. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Word for World is Forest

    The world is always new," said Coro Mena, "however old its roots.
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  6. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Word for World is Forest

    In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.
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  7. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Word for World is Forest

    Can you walk the road your dream goes?Sometimes. Sometimes I am afraid to.Who is not....
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  8. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Word for World is Forest

    The most winning characteristic of the rather harsh Cetian temperament was curiosity, inopportune, and inexhaustible curiosity; Cetians died eagerly, curious as to what came next.
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  9. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Word for World is Forest

    But even the most unmissionary soul, unless he pretend he has no emotions, is sometimes faced with a choice between commission and omission. 'What are they doing?' abruptly becomes, 'What are we doing?' and then, 'What must I do?"
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  10. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Word for World is Forest

    You have not thought things through," he said. By his standards it was a brutal insult.
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  11. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Word for World is Forest

    Had his fear, in fact, been the personal fear that Selver might having learnt the racial hatred, reject him and treat him not as you but as one of them.
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  12. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Word for World is Forest

    I don't know. Do men kill men, except in madness? Does any beast kill its own kind? Only the insects. These yumens kill us as lightly as we kill snakes. The one who taught me said that they kill one another, in quarrels, and also in groups, like ants fighting. I haven't seen that. But I know they don't spare one who asks life. They will strike a bowed neck, I have seen it! There is a wish to kill in them, and therefore I saw fit to put them to death.
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