Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us. (Freya Stark)

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

Freya Stark

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