“It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin , Hainish Cycle

Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 15 “To the Ice” (p. 220)

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