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“He never managed to articulate what it was he didn’t know, but I knew his meaning. I don’t know how much suffering is normal. How much was ordinary, expected, the price we paid to live. How much was created by us, needless.”

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Book:The Poet Empress
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Book:Tears and Saints
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