"There are no grounds for supposing that one can live a life without pain and sadness, but is it wrong to believe that somehow, somewhere, this is possible?"
"Where life is fully and consciously lived in our own neighborhood, we are cushioned a little from the impact of great far-off events which should be of only marginal concern to us."
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Source: Hubert Butler, Robert Fitzroy Foster (1990). “The sub-prefect should have held his tongue and other essays”, Viking Adult
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