Human Suffering

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“Philosophically, incest asks a fundamental question of our shifting mores: not simply what is normal and what is deviant, but whether such a thing as deviance exists at all in human relationships if they seem satisfactory to those who share them.”
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“I thought I alone suffered,
but suffering is everywhere.
When I went on the housetop
I saw its fire in every home.”
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