We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is…

Albert Schweitzer
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We must all die. But that I can save him from days of torture, that is what I feel as my great and ever new privilege. Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself. ✨ Albert Schweitzer (2014). A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer, p.66, Open Road Media
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