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- Liu Cixin
- 2008
- “The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound.
- “If I destroy you, what business is it of yours?” ― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest.
- “For the majority of people, what they love exists only in the imagination. The object of their love is not the man or woman of reality, but what he or she is like in their imagination.
- “It’s a wonder to be alive. If you don’t understand that, how can you search for anything deeper?” ― Liu Cixin, The Dark Forest.
- O Pioneers!
- The Song of The Lark
- My Antonia
- The Professor's House
- Katherine Mansfield
- My Mortal Enemy
- Death Comes For The Archbishop
- Not Under Forty
- Willa Cather on Writing
- Willa Cather in Europe
The great fact was the land itself, which seemed to overwhelm the little beginnings of human society that struggled in its sombre wastes. It was from facing this vast hardness that the boy's mouth...
I tell you there is no such thing as creative hate!Nothing is far and nothing is near, if one desires. The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.The great pines stand at a considerable distance from each other. Each tree grows alone, murmurs alone, thinks alone. They do not intrude upon each other. The Navajos are not much in the habit of g...What was any art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself — life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to...There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not make it out in the faint starlight. There was nothing but land: not a country...
His misfortune was that he loved youth — he was weak to it, it kindled him. If there was one eager eye, one doubting, critical mind, one lively curiosity in a whole lecture-room full of commonplace...
Essay, originally published in The Borzoi 1925(1925) 1. The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate. 1. Even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life, which is the one we can observe ...
Now everything was in ruins. The air was still and cold like the air in a refrigerating-room. What I felt was fear; I was afraid to look or speak or move. Everything about me seemed evil. When kind...
That irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.Where there is great love there are always miracles.The Miracles of the Church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a mo...The sky was as full of motion and change as the desert beneath it was monotonous and still, — and there was so much sky, more than at sea, more than anywhere else in the world. The plain was there,...Father Latour judged that, just as it was the white man's way to assert himself in any landscape, to change it, make it over a little (at least to leave some mark of memorial of his sojourn), it wa...In New Mexico he always awoke a young man...Beautiful surroundings, the society of learned men, the charm of noble women, the graces of art, could not make up to him for the loss of those light-hea...Whatever is felt upon the page without being specifically named there — that, one might say, is created. It is the inexplicable presence of the thing not named, of the overtone divined by the ear b...
Art, it seems to me, should simplify. That, indeed, is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the...
Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in wes...
Quotes from The Dark Forest. “The universe is a dark forest. Every civilization is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care.
“In this forest, hell is other people. An eternal threat that any life that exposes its own existence will be swiftly wiped out.” Luo Ji. Luo Ji explains his theory of the dark forest, in that the universe is a dark forest with civilizations that are preserving their safety.
The Dark Forest (黑暗森林) is a Science Fiction novel and the second in the Remembrance of Earth's Past trilogy by Liu Cixin. It was first published in 2008 and translated into English by Joel Martinsen in 2015. It is preceded by The Three-Body Problem and followed by Death's End.
The Dark Forest study guide contains a biography of Liu Cixin, literature essays, quiz questions, major themes, characters, and a full summary and analysis. The The Dark Forest Community Note includes chapter-by-chapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community ...
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The story of The Dark Forest delves deeper into the complex world of cosmic exploration, interstellar politics, and the existential threat humanity faces from the Trisolarans, an extraterrestrial civilization striving to escape their dying planet in the Trisolaris system.
