It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.
We are brothers in what we share. In pain, which each of us must suffer alone, in hunger, in poverty, in hope, we know our brotherhood. We know it, because we have had to learn it. There is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. The hand that you reach out is empty, as mine is.
You have nothing. You possess nothing. You own nothing. You are free. All you have is what you are, and what you give.
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One of the best written novels. It is SF because it has ships and stuff. But a philosophical book from start to finish.
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