"I found that the only way I could control this sorrow was not to think of [it] at all, which was almost as painful as the loss itself."

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Why does a man cry? he wondered. Not like a woman; not for that. Not for sentiment. A man cries over the loss of something, something alive. A man can cry over a sick animal that he knows won't make it. The death of a child: a man can cry for that. But not because things are sad. A man, he thought, cries not for the future or the past but for the present.

— Philip K. Dick