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Enero 26, 2006

There is nothing heavier than compassion...

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

Milan Kundera, from The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Posted by sarita at Enero 26, 2006 11:44 PM