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If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Home, Joy, Suffering
Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.144, Hachette UK

If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Joy, Suffering, Chance
Ursula K. LeGuin (2015). “The Dispossessed”, p.144, Hachette UK

A man who doesn't detest a bad government is a fool. And if there were such a thing as a good government on earth, it would be a great joy to serve it.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Men, Joy, Fool
Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.146, Penguin

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