When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is bot…

Yann Martel
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When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling. ✨ Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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