“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.”

—  Ursula K. Le Guin, book The Lathe of Heaven

Source: The Lathe of Heaven (Smrtonosné sny)

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American writer 1929–2018

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