“There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unreality that he cannot bear.”

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

Source: The Lathe of Heaven (1971), Chapter 11 (Orr)

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