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When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that i

When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together. – John Berger

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The envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. – John Berger

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Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature. – John Berger

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Evil
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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form. – John Berger

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alone
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All things grow with time — except grief. – Yiddish Proverb

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I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame. – Antonia S. Byatt

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Many have too much, but none enough. – Danish proverb

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