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 (1893-1993) Franco-British explorer, travel writer [Freya Madeline Stark]
Perseus in the Wind, ch. 16 (1948).

 
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