It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self — ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality — the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness — that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.


The Dispossessed (1974)

Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self — ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality — the truth...

It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self — ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality — the truth...

It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self — ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality — the truth...

It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self — ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality — the truth...