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title: The Dispossessed
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To die is to lose the self and rejoin the rest. He had kept himself, and lost the rest.

Oiie was fond of his wife and trusted her. He behaved to her and to his children very much as an Anarresti might. In factm at home, he suddenly appeared as a simple, brotherly kind of man, a free man.

This was the Urras he had learned about in school on Anarres. This was the world from which his ancestors had fled, preferring hunger and the desert and endless exile.

<q>Do you know what your society has meant, here, to us, these last hundred and fifty years? DO you know that when people here want to wish each other luck they say, <q>May you get rebortn on Anarres!</q> To know that it exists, to know that there is a society without government, without police, without economic exploitation, that they can never say again that it's just a mirage, an idealist's dream!</q>
> Maedda
