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cosmic-navel-gazin · 2 years ago

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“Rumata felt a strange sense of painful ambivalence. He knew that he was right, yet in some strange way, this rightness lowered him before Arata. Arata was clearly somehow superior to him— and not only to him but to all those who had come to this planet uninvited and who, full of helpless pity, watched the tumultuous bustling of its life from the rarefied heights of dry hypotheses and alien morality. And for the first time Rumata thought, There is no gain without a loss. We’re infinitely stronger than Arata in our kingdom of good and infinitely weaker than Arata in his kingdom of evil.”

— Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Hard to be a God

#''You shouldn’t have come down from the sky ... You’re only doing us harm.'' - *gets wrecked*#I should be cooking dinner but instead I'm thinking about the cosmonaut space god and the medieval rebel peasant #wish I could properly put into words why I love their dynamic so much #but those thoughts are drowned up by silent hill-esque radio static and FEELINGS!#they have similar sounding names for a reason I'm not crazy!#it's the 'they want the same ends but can't agree on the means'#it's the confrontation between the 'will' to bring about positive change not having the power to do so;#and the 'power' to bring about change sharing the same 'will' -#- but being so self-aware with a surplus of foresight that it makes it afraid of exerting itself #it's the never ending argument between the will and the power #in this TED Talk I will...#Hard to Be a God #Strugatsky Brothers #books #quotes

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