
Those are your tears."Ī great shiver went through his body as she took him in her arms.“Beyond all her other works, Ursula K. "Don't be propertarian," Takver muttered. Which is moonlight, which is Takver? How shall I fear death? When I hold it, when I hold in my hands the light-" I'll die, you'll die how could we love each other otherwise? The sun's going to burn out, what else keeps it shining?" "All you have to do to see life as a whole is to see it as mortal. "It's nothing to do with eternity," said Shevek, grinning, a thin shaggy man of silver and shadow. Let it stay off there and be the moon-I don't want it! But I am not going to stand up on a gravestone and look down on life and say, 'O lovely!' I want to see it whole right in the middle of it, here, now. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death." The way to see how beautiful earth is, is to see it from the moon.

And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you loose the pattern. But close up, a world's all dirt and rocks. “If you can see a thing whole," he said, "it seems that it's always beautiful. You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You must come to it alone, and naked, as the child comes into the world, into his future, without any past, without any property, wholly dependent on other people for his life. If it is Anarres you want, if it is the future you seek, then I tell you that you must come to it with empty hands.

We have no states, no nations, no presidents, no premiers, no chiefs, no generals, no bosses, no bankers, no landlords, no wages, no charity, no police, no soldiers, no wars.

We have no government but the single principle of free association. We have no law but the single principle of mutual aid between individuals. We have nothing to give you but your own freedom.
