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It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

It is not human to be without shame and without desire.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Desire, Shame, Humans
Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.124, Penguin

A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Believe, Play, Desire
Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “The Lathe Of Heaven: A Novel”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

The desire for power feeds off itself, growing as it devours.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Desire, Growing, Desire For Power
Ursula K. Le Guin (2012). “Tales from Earthsea”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?

Ursula K. Le Guin
Heart, Fire, Desire
Ursula K. Le Guin (2008). “Lavinia”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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