For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my …

Yann Martel
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For the first time I noticed - as I would notice repeatedly during my ordeal, between one throe of agony and the next - that my suffering was taking place in a grand setting. I saw my suffering for what it was, finite and insignificant, and I was still. My suffering did not fit anywhere, I realized. And I could accept this. It was all right. ✨ Yann Martel (2015). Life of Pi - CANCELED, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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