I certainly wasn’t happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can’t earn, and can’t keep, and often don’t even recognize at the time; I mean joy.
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| — | Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness (via quotespile) |

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