Quote by Margaret Atwood
Strange how we decorate pain. - Margaret Atwood

Strange how we decorate pain. – Margaret Atwood

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Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee… I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now. – Margaret Atwood

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Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. – Confucius

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Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing sooner than of war. – Homer, Iliad

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Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom. – Coventry Patmore

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