Body Quote by Ursula K. Le Guin

“What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.”

Ursula K. Le Guin

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