If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind. (Kenzaburō Ōe)

If any suffering was fruitless it was the agony of a hangover; what he suffered now could not expiate suffering of any other kind.

Kenzaburō Ōe

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