So, looking back on the last four years, Shevek saw them not as wasted, but as part of the edifice that he and Takver were building with their lives. The thing about working with time, instead of against it, he thought, is that it is not wasted. Even pain counts.
( Ursula K. Le Guin )
[ The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous ]
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