Ursula K. Le Guin quote: Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is ...

Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive

~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~

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