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“Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering...”
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“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
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“I don't think it was pain that made [Vincent Van Gogh] great - I think his painting brought him whatever happiness he had.”
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“People speak sometimes about the "bestial" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.”
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“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”
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Shy’s 2025 Year in Books
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