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title: The Dispossessed
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author: Ursula K. Le Guin
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published: 1974-05-01
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tags: skeleton
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It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey
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the mind, and turns to hate when forced. The bond that binds us is beyond
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choice. We are brothers. We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each
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of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our
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brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it.
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We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will
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save us if we do not reach out our hand. And the hand that you reach out is
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empty, as mine is.
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You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have
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is what you are, and what you give.
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