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Quote from Ursula K. Le Guin from the book The Farthest Shore, reference: Page 26/138.
When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And i leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly.
But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again.
Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simple be.
Or wonder who, after all, you are.
When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And i leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly.
But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again.
Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simple be.
Or wonder who, after all, you are.