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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

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It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.

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in my cowardice I became at once a man, and did what all we grown men do when face to face with suffering and injustice; I preferred not to see them

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Other people are, as a rule, so immaterial to us that, when we have entrusted to any one of them the power to cause so much suffering or happiness to ...more

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His jealousy, like an octopus which throws out a first, then a second, and finally a third tentacle, fastened itself irremovably first to that moment,...more

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I came to recognise that, apart from her [Françoise's] own kinsfolk, the sufferings of humanity inspired in her a pity which increased in direct ratio...more

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I must choose to cease from suffering or to cease from loving.

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Every individual who makes us suffer can be attached by us to a divinity of which he or she is a mere fragmentary reflexion, the lowest step in the as...more