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“There's no absolute scale of pain, there's no platinum-iridium pain meter preserved in some museum. There is no suffering that is great enough that we can be proud of as if it were a medal, or too small, that we should be ashamed, as if it were a whim. What devastates us is not what is happening around us but what is stirring within us and towards which we feel unprotected.”

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