trouble a bad habit, encouraged pedants sophisticates, considering hap — Ursula K. Le Guin, Wind’s Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

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The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain. If you can’t lick ��?em, join ��?em. If it hurts, repeat it. But to praise despair is to condemn delight, to embrace violence is to lose hold of everything else. We have almost lost hold; we can no longer describe a happy man, nor make any celebration of joy.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wind's Twelve Quarters, Volume 1

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