"We are prudent people. We are afraid to let go of our petty reality in order to grasp at a great shadow."

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I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less than men; and I wrote ferociously that we learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.

— W. Somerset Maugham