Everything about us, everything around us, everything we know and can know of is composed ultimately of patterns of nothing; that’s the bottom line, the final truth. So where we find we have any control over those patterns, why not make the most elegant ones, the most enjoyable and good ones, in our own terms? Yes, we’re hedonists, Mr. Bora Horza Gobuchul. We seek pleasure and have fashioned ourselves so that we can take more of it; admitted. We are what we are. But what about you? What does that make you? . Iain Banks
About This Quote

Bora Horza Gobuchul is the protagonist of the novel "A civil war in the Solar System" by Ursula K. LeGuin. Bora is a hedonist who seeks pleasure in everything. However, after being faced with many realizations, he begins to question his ways and the ways of the universe.

This quote says that everything is made up of patterns of nothing. If you wish to be happy, do it in your own style. You are what you are, but that doesn't mean you cannot change who you are to make life better for yourself and others around you.

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