“
Life's a scab, and it's our nature to pick at it until it bleeds.Life's a scab, and it's our nature to pick at it until it bleeds....more
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―
Adrian Barnes,
Nod
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The world is perhaps ultimately to be defined as a place of suffering. Man is a suffering animal, subject to ceaseless anxiety and pain and fear.
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―
Iris Murdoch,
The Black Prince
