“Where my guides lead me in kindness
I follow, follow lightly,
and there are no footprints
in the dust behind us.”

—  Ursula K. Le Guin , Hainish Cycle

Source: Hainish Cycle, The Telling (2000), Ch. 3, §2 (p. 72)

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