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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

Suffering is dysfunctional, except as a bodily warning against danger. Psychologically and socially it's merely destructive.

Ursula K. Le Guin
Suffering, Warning, Danger
"The Dispossessed". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1974.

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