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Ursula K. Le Guin: The  Dispossessed (Hardcover, 1991, Harper Paperbacks) 5 stars

Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, …

Of course it’s right to cure diseases, to prevent hunger and injustice, as the social organism does. But no society can change the nature of existence. We can’t prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality. All of us here are going to know grief; if we live fifty years, we’ll have known pain for fifty years. And in the end we’ll die. That’s the condition we’re born on. I’m afraid of life! There are times I—I am very frightened. Any happiness seems trivial.

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