Today I suffered yet another blow of humiliation and disgrace. These endless  blows ... for 6 years already ... and there is no end ...

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“...when evening fell and the grey twilight spread its dusky robe upon the waters, she stretched her arms out to the silent river that had known her sorrow and her joy. And the old river had taken her into its gentle arms, and had laid her weary head upon its bosom, and had hushed away the pain.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

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Stone berry

“Only love has clear vision. Hatred has cloudy vision. When we hate we know not what we do.”
― Iris Murdoch, An Unofficial Rose

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“How mysterious night and day are, this endless procession off dark and light....I think such sad thoughts - of people in trouble and afraid, all lonely people all prisoners.”
― Iris Murdoch, The Unicorn

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