The Dispossessed: A Novel (Hainish Cycle, #6)

by Ursula K. Le Guin

He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person’s solitude which alone transcends it.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.