“ For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. ”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Categories: Compassion
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