“I thought, shivering, that there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin , Hainish Cycle

Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 5 “The Domestication of Hunch” (p. 51)

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