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“A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole; such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Only those who have denied their being yearn to play at it.”

The passive idealist dreamer who inadvertently changes reality and the reactive rationalist who can only ever exploit. Ursula is the best to do ever it. An author so good I can’t ever forget that I’m reading her.