Human Suffering

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“If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals entered human ambition. It was clear there’d be no end to what people would be made to suffer for it.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)

“We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)