"We burned with love for ourselves, all of us, starters of the fire we suffered- our love was the affliction for which only our love was the cure."

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Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.

— Simone Weil