Ursula K. Le Guin quote: There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do ...

There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin ~

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