Hainish Cycle #1

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin

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The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell.
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The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
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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.
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'Even from the brother there is no comfort in the bad hour, in the dark at the foot of the wall.'
The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.
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They both had suffered from it, and suffered a good deal, but it had not occured to either of them to escape the suffering by denying the commitment.
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