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All her life she had looked into dark; but this was a vaster darkness, this night on the ocean. There was no end to it. There was no roof. It went out beyond the stars.
All her life she had looked into dark; but this was a vaster darkness, this night on the ocean. There was no end to it. There was no roof. It went out beyond the stars.
Approximate author period: c. 1973 AD · modern
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- Ursula K. Le Guin
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- Approximate author period: c. 1973 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1929 to 2018; Wikidata Q181659, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q181659 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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