tamaranth | Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010

The Left Hand of Darkness -- Ursula LeGuin

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 recognise at the time; I mean joy. (p. 241)

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