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Arv og miljø

Vigdis Hjorth

3.86 · Rating details · 7,867 ratings · 613 reviews

At ingen av dere på noe tidspunkt har spurt meg om min historie, har jeg opplevd og opplever jeg som en stor sorg..

Det er Bergljot, den eldste datteren i familien, som formulerer seg slik i en mail til sine søstre, etter at det har pågått en heftig diskusjon om forskudd på arv.

Kjernen i arveoppgjøret er fordelingen av to sommerhytter som ligger ved siden av hverandre på Hv ...more

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Nov 19, 2019 Paltia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

The first 84 pages of this book were close to mind numbing. It was as if the author was reciting a mantra about her father’s final will to calm herself. As each page melted into the next there were small hints revealed as to where the story was headed. By page 84 the narrator is angry. She’s hammering out emails to her younger sisters calling them on their self righteousness. She forms an alliance with her brother as the family unravels. Something is terribly wrong. The narrator has voluntarily The first 84 pages of this book were close to mind numbing. It was as if the author was reciting a mantra about her father’s final will to calm herself. As each page melted into the next there were small hints revealed as to where the story was headed. By page 84 the narrator is angry. She’s hammering out emails to her younger sisters calling them on their self righteousness. She forms an alliance with her brother as the family unravels. Something is terribly wrong. The narrator has voluntarily estranged herself from all but her brother. There are, she tells us, situations which can’t be balanced out, talked over and round. You must pick a side. She finds herself at home in the winter darkness. This darkness erases her and the forest shields everything in a protective cloak. Seated on a downed tree she watches her dog running. The snow begins to fall. In these moments she feels fine and light. For a time, albeit brief, she is without pain. What follows is her endless examination and exploration of her state of mind. Whichever road she travels she is met with dead ends and distressing flashbacks. Ever so slowly she reveals her past. Repressed memories have the effect of a time bomb that ticks quietly but never harmlessly. We learn of her attempts to make an emotional getaway through psychoanalysis. Other times the memories are buried more deeply. Like a series of land mines that might lay dormant, if only. There are many moments of if only for the narrator. As if on a seesaw she will be confidently high at the top with her truth only to be cruelly dropped to the ground when called a liar. Up and down she rides. This is a brutal narrative full of anger, hate, doubt and self recriminations. Self esteem is eroded. Her close friend, husband and children offer support. It circles back round to a question of balance. Can anything or anyone counteract the toxicity of her sisters, mother and yes, father? The narrator exists in a prism of hate. Her past is all pervasive. There is no way to compartmentalise. There is no luxury of denial. There is survival even when adrift in the unpredictable waters of memory. I experienced an involuntary shudder and released a deep sigh when I read the last page. The contents weighed on me for some time. ...more

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Feb 16, 2020 Barbara rated it liked it · review of another edition

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This book, set in Norway, revolves around the unresolved childhood trauma of a middle-aged woman named Bergljot.

Bergljot is a divorced theater critic with three grown children who's been estranged from her parents and sisters for decades. Bergljot is drawn back into her family's orbit when her brother Bård, who's also alienated from their parents, contacts her about an inheritance.

Bergljot and Bård's parents bequeathed their two vacation cabins to their daughters Astrid and Åsa instea ...more

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Nov 24, 2016 Tanja Berg rated it it was ok

Shelves: scandinavian, family-saga, wish-i-had-not-read

The truth is I didn't like it. I've spent several days trying to not read. Yet there's been such spectacular fuss around this book here in Norway - for its semi autobiographical content - that I had to finish. Ugh. I could have just left it after 50 pages, when I first started wondering whether it was worth it, for all it gave me. A waste of time and patience.

The book starts with an argument over the inheritance of two summer cottages and descends into washing the family's dirty laundry so to s ...more

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Sep 18, 2019 Katia N rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I've picked up this book because I’ve read A House in Norway by Vigdis Hjorth and it has left a lasting impression on me. As far as I know, only these two of her books have been translated into English. Both books focus on difficult moral dilemmas. And Hjorth investigates them with unflinching honesty and forensic attention to detail, which makes a very thought-provoking compelling read.

“The house in Norway” was dealing with a contradictory, often conflicting relationship between a local host a I've picked up this book because I’ve read A House in Norway by Vigdis Hjorth and it has left a lasting impression on me. As far as I know, only these two of her books have been translated into English. Both books focus on difficult moral dilemmas. And Hjorth investigates them with unflinching honesty and forensic attention to detail, which makes a very thought-provoking compelling read.

“The house in Norway” was dealing with a contradictory, often conflicting relationship between a local host and her emigrant Polish lodgers. "Will and Testament" addresses more intimate subject matter of the consequences of a repressed childhood trauma and its impact on a large family.

The narrator, the women in her 50s, has chosen to estrange herself from her parents and her two younger sisters almost completely for a long time. However, she is dragged into the inheritance dispute after her father’s death. Consequently, she needs to confront her demons once more. The reason for estrangement was that at the age of 30, newly divorced, she suddenly remembered what happened to her when she was a little girl. Or at least she thinks she remembers this. Her memory is unreliable and very painful.

Going deeper would be spoiling the book as the core of the novel is her dealing with this situation. Hjorth’s urgent, personal and honest narrative style contributes to the power of the book. Her character is dealing with the family dynamics. She is trying to put yourself in the place of other family members. But she does not try or even pretend to try to be objective. And that is refreshing.

There are many themes touched upon in the book which could be discussed. Some of them is hard to talk about without spoiling. But I will just mention one. More often than not, in many situations related to childhood traumas or wider domestic violence, there is no proof of wrong doing. Often, even memories are repressed. So what would be right way of dealing with such situations as a friend or a sibling? How to navigate between the victims and the potential wrongdoers? I do not have a straightforward answer. The book does not give a straightforward answer either that is why I think it is a powerful book.

One might argue that as a novel it might be better if it would have the voices of other family members represented separately. Otherwise occasionally the book acquires a slight undertone of a therapeutic confession. However, it is definitely unsentimental and full of authentic raw feelings.

A now, the difficult bit. When I finished reading I came across the review in New Statesman claiming that this story is lightly veiled personal story of the author. So, she has done something similar to Knausgård’s A Death in the Family. As a result, her family was distraught about the book. Her sister even wrote a counter novel. However, Hjorth still claims “Will and testament” is totally fictional. I did not know all of this when I was reading the book. Again, the situation is that there is no proof. But the family’s reaction shows that at least there is something personal there. Effectively, she has reversed the situation of a victim-perpetrators conflict on a meta level.

So it made me pose and think how this fact affects me as a reader. I have to admit, initially I was slightly disappointed. It would be better if this story would not affect real people and simply pose to universal questions. But then, deep inside, I think I understand her motives and can sympathise with them. ...more

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Oct 04, 2019 Paul Fulcher rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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I tapped Lars on the shoulder and asked if I could read something to him. He looked at me, hoping it didn’t have anything to do with inheritance.

Will and Testament translated by Charlotte Barslund from Arv og miljø by Vigdis Hjorth was recently longlisted for the 2019 National Book Awards for Translated Literature.

The novel starts with the first person narrator, Bergljot, telling us how her Dad died five months earlier, just days after she had herself become embroiled in a dispute between her b ...more

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Dec 30, 2019 anna marie rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: own

this novel is about child sexual abuse [and this review is also about that] [and i would say includes emotional abuse and alcohol/addiction too].

i'm not sure how public i want to be about my response to this novel on goodreads lol but i would like that say that in a few/some/many/too many ways this novel is about me and my family, about the winding conflicts and the repetitive, painful conversations. the way the family narrative perpetuates itself through each of us, creating roles, hiding trut ...more

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Oct 01, 2019 Paul Ataua rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Pomegranates were pretty rare in my area when I was a child, but whenever my mother came across them at the market, she would bring a couple home for me and my brother. As we know, the pomegranate has very small seeds surrounded with a juicy red pulp that is so delicious, but getting to that heavenly center requires a great deal of effort forcing your way through the tough thick peel and the flesh that covers it. ‘Will and Testament’ is a pomegranate of a book. At the center is a special and not ...more

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May 02, 2019 Ellen Springelkamp rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: nordic, contemporary-novel

This was hard to get through for me. Even though the premise of the novel looked interesting, the style of writing was tedious.
I felt like the author just randomly jotted down her feelings jumping back and forth in time, and forgetting she already wrote certain things. The repetitiveness was bizarre. Even in the same paragraph the same things were being said. Example: ‘ I could not sleep. I laid awake. I could not sleep because of this and that. I could not sleep‘ etc etc.
Well I could definite ...more

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May 21, 2020 Guillaume Morissette rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

I thought this was an outstanding novel that picks up momentum as you read & builds up to a scene around the halfway point that threw my jaw on the floor & left it there for a while.

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Apr 05, 2020 Lia rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020-maybe, 21st-century, translated, btba-ll

The “will” in the title is obviously referring to the legal documents of inheritance, of which lineage gets what, which is to be settled with testimonies competing for sympathetic witnesses. But I suspect it also refers to the messy contest of human wills.

This is a Freudian account of secrets, impulses, transgressions, betrayals, sexual competitions, which is ostensibly about a family passing around a shameful secret, but it’s also sneakily superimposed onto the mass madness of post-enlightenmen ...more

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Oct 05, 2016 Ann Ingebrigtsen rated it it was amazing

Shelves: contemporary, biography

L-O-V-E-D I-T!

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Oct 11, 2019 Sam rated it really liked it · review of another edition

First, I suggest you read the book without checking reviews or blurbs because I felt my reading experience spoiled with the short descriptions I saw. If you have had a preview, stick with the book, since the second half is more rewarding than the first, if their has been a spoiler revealed. Second, if you must read a review, Check out Paul Fulcher's:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

He stated better all of what I planned to say plus more.

This leaves me only to add that I found myself que ...more

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Jan 29, 2021 Sian Lile-Pastore rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This book is about child abuse so obviously a difficult read and one you might not want to engage with.
saying that, I didn't find it too traumatic to read as it doesn't go into much detail about the actual abuse (realise that sounds a bit weird - i just didn't want to put you off reading it as its so good)
I suppose its more about trauma and recovery and how trauma presents itself. it also talks about families, secrets, emotional abuse, alcohol dependency, conflict (wars/genocide) poetry, books ...more

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Jan 08, 2020 Tamara Agha-Jaffar rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2020-read-women, books-in-translation, books-i-ve-reviewed, fiction, 2020-reading-challenge

Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Charlotte Barslund, is the first-person narrative of Bergljot, a woman in her fifties who has been estranged from her family for over two decades. An inheritance dispute and the death of her father forces Bergljot to interact with her family. Every interaction with them dredges up memories of the past as Bergljot struggles to understand her family’s choice of denying the truth of her childhood trauma. The nature of the trauma is alluded to but n Will and Testament by Vigdis Hjorth, translated by Charlotte Barslund, is the first-person narrative of Bergljot, a woman in her fifties who has been estranged from her family for over two decades. An inheritance dispute and the death of her father forces Bergljot to interact with her family. Every interaction with them dredges up memories of the past as Bergljot struggles to understand her family’s choice of denying the truth of her childhood trauma. The nature of the trauma is alluded to but not explicitly stated until Bergljot confronts her family in an open letter after her father’s death.

Bergljot was sexually assaulted by her father when she was a child. The assault started when she was five years old and continued for two years. Although she suppressed the memory for many years, it continued to surface in fragments. She was eventually able to piece it together when she was in her twenties and revealed the assault to her family. They reacted to the accusation with virulent hostility. They doubted her, accused her of ingratitude, of having a wild imagination, of behaving aggressively to get attention. They did everything they could to deny her the satisfaction of believing her, effectively pushing her away to silence her. Their denial is a continual source of Bergljot’s frustration.

The narrative unfolds in a series of flashbacks and vignettes. Threaded throughout is Bergljot’s raw anger toward her family and her desperate attempts to understand why they denied her truth. She sends angry emails to her sister and then apologizes for them. She shares her frustrations with her husband, children, and friends. Each email or phone call from her mother or sister sends her plummeting into a vortex of anxiety and self-analysis. She narrates her dreams. She cites the words of Freud, Jung, her therapist, various artists, and friends in an effort to understand how childhood trauma has impacted her and why its revelation impacted her family in the way it did. The movement is circular, always rotating around the same issues—why did it happen and why are they denying my truth?

Whether it is based on the author’s real life as some have suggested, or whether it is a work of fiction as the author claims it to be, this is a powerful novel illustrating the devastating impact of childhood sexual assault on a victim whose truth has been denied. Unfortunately, it suffers from poor editing and punctuation. It is littered with fused sentences, comma splices, and repetitive sentences. This may be a fault of the translation. Or it may be an effort to reflect the narrator’s trauma as she circles around events, fuses sentences, or repeats them. Either way, it detracts from an otherwise powerful story.

In spite of this, the novel is recommended for its exploration of sibling rivalry, parental favoritism, the impact of childhood trauma, and the sacrifices and choices victims and their families make when egregious wrongdoing cannot be proved.

My book reviews are also available at www.tamaraaghajaffar.com ...more

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Nov 03, 2019 Cherise Wolas rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: books-in-translation, norwegian-writers, 2019-reading-challenge, first-person-narrator, contemporary, family, auto-fiction, family-trauma, family-drama, family-life

Bergljot, the first-person narrator, is an editor, divorced, the mother of three grown children, a grandmother, estranged from her parents, her older brother, and younger sisters. 23 years ago, after finding herself in an intense personal crisis, she enters 4-day-a-week psychoanalysis, and eventually tells her family what happened to her when she was a child - that she was abused by her father, who is still married to her mother, still the head of the family. They denied her claims and challenge Bergljot, the first-person narrator, is an editor, divorced, the mother of three grown children, a grandmother, estranged from her parents, her older brother, and younger sisters. 23 years ago, after finding herself in an intense personal crisis, she enters 4-day-a-week psychoanalysis, and eventually tells her family what happened to her when she was a child - that she was abused by her father, who is still married to her mother, still the head of the family. They denied her claims and challenged her claims and the family circled the wagons. When a dispute breaks out about the inheritance of summer cabins - the cabins will not be shared among the four siblings, have been valued at far less than their worth, and already given to the two younger daughters who have remained close to their parents - she is forced to again engage with her family and feels compelled to try once more to make them acknowledge what happened to her as a child. The writing is reserved and dry when focused on present-day events, and frantic, repetitive and insistent when the narrator is talking about the past, as happens when we are in deep distress and our brains go round and round, enclosing us with the narrator in her need to be heard, a need long and forever doomed. Bergljot's awareness of and even sympathy for the pain experienced by her parents and siblings as a result of what happened to her, and their denial of that, and her estrangement from them, is unusual. Also unusual is her ability to demonstrate by their past behaviors, actions, and words, that her father, though apparently drunk when he abused her, was aware he had done so, and that her mother worried that it was indeed likely that he had done so. And yet at each moment in the history of this family, someone turns away from the deep conversations that must be had. As horrible as the father's actions, perhaps even worse are her mother's: a needy woman who relies on threats of suicide, of turning everything back to herself. Three generations are affected here by unstated and stated abuse - Bergljot's father refers elliptically to what he'd suffered as a child without saying more, what Bergljot has suffered, and how that has affected her own children. What forms us begins so early in life, and childhood suffering carries though all of the years. ...more

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Jul 05, 2019 Jacqueline rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: audiobook

I have hesitated long before reading "Arv og miljø". There was a long debate about how writers should or should not write about their own experiences. About the boarder between reality and fiction? About the right to violate private lives.
I did not read "Arv og miljø". I listened to it. The story is read by Vigdis Hjort herself. I'm astonished. The novel is furious, but wise, painful, but thoughtful. Hjort alternates between depictions of the main character's experiences of her family and philo ...more

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Oct 08, 2019 Ryan Jarjoura rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Honestly, I think this is the first book that's made me understand the power of the novel as a medium. The story doesn't ultimately end in catharsis, but neither do most of the struggles in our lives. Throughout this story, we see Bergljot try SO hard to just tell her story and be listened to. The cyclical nature in the story is reminiscent of how we experience our memories in real time--we remember things based on events that trigger the memories. The narrative of our life is not built up linea ...more

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Dec 31, 2019 Christine rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: literature-norway, minority-and-women-writers

I don't think this book will be for everyone. The style is either going to grab you or not, but I found it good and engrossing. It is really one of the free books I read that really does tackle mental health in a good way. ...more

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Dec 10, 2018 Heleen rated it did not like it · review of another edition

Never finished the book, the fuss about the heritance went on and on, I got bored with the book

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Nov 17, 2019 Amy rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Somewhere in here is a really good book, but it's drowning in repetition and overwriting. ...more

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Jan 23, 2020 Tara rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This book wrecked me and I am a better person for it.
Thank you for writing it.

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Oct 01, 2019 Katherine Kreuter rated it liked it · review of another edition

Deeply strange but won't let you go. I felt I had to finish it although you get to the end and go 'huh?' The writing style is stark as some instruction-manual, but that I think is the author's intent. I struggled to understand why this was such a best seller until I read more about the author's back story and supposition about how much of this novel is true. But should that make it a great book? Don't think so. Still, the part of the plot centering on family and inheritance is well done and I'm ...more

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Feb 04, 2019 Gustaf Runius rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Ok, not very exiting or interesting family drama. Persons are more clipboard figures than fully developed characters.

Still the topics of relations between siblings and parents, love, rivalry, shame and the question if something really happened are interesting topics. Too bad that the characters are not better, then this might have been a really good book

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Jul 08, 2017 Harald Kirkerød rated it it was amazing

Read it all in one sitting. Couldn't put it down! Powerful stuff. ...more

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Apr 20, 2020 Chad rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This is such a skillful book, seemingly straightforward at first glance, but the authorial choices made by Hjorth make this book so affecting and worthwhile. I have no doubt that if an American or British writer had attempted to write the same book, it would be absolutely dreadful. And why is that? Is it because the domestic drama genre has become so hollowed out and stale that we can predict the entire narrative and smell the twists from a mile away? Maybe. But I think one thing that Hjorth suc ...more

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Jan 19, 2021 Justine Francis rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

“I was incapable of forgiveness.
But throw it into the sea of oblivion?
Hold it up to the light, examine it, acknowledge it and accept it, and then throw it into the sea of oblivion?
I couldn’t do that either. Because it wasn’t isolated incidents and a finished story, but a ceaseless exploration, a necessary excavation full of dead ends and distressing flashbacks. And the presence of my lost childhood, the constant return of this loss had made me who I was, it was a part of me, it pervaded even th ...more

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Nov 23, 2019 anna rated it really liked it · review of another edition

This book captures so many aspects of family dispute/drama/disruption. There's the falling out between individuals, the ripples that run through the rest of the family unit, and then (for this family) the complication of an inheritance - allegedly to be distributed equally - and four children, two who have fallen out with the parents and two who have not. There's questions of alliances and allegiances, reliable/unreliable narrators and memories, and if money transferred somehow then requires a c ...more

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Nov 17, 2019 Simon Kearney rated it really liked it · review of another edition

I'm fascinated by the ways in which parents screw up their kids. It seems no matter what you do it can't be helped. The only question for parents is how to minimise the damage.
Here the damage to the protagonist is so vivid. The parents attempts to minimise the damage to the family only wreak more havoc, deservedly so given what happened. It runs like a river through generations.
The characters vulnerabilities are the underlying story. You're forced to question your sympathies. And everyone is s ...more

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Jun 12, 2019 Ignatius Vonnegut rated it really liked it

Shelves: best-nordic-litterature, outside-my-top-100

Close to a 5 star rating. It's very intimate and thorough around its theme. I only miss something concerning "the rest of her life" outside the incest story.

One of the lasting impressions was the authors picture of herself. All in. Good and bad... ...more

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Dec 12, 2019 Jay Moran rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favourites, 2019-favourites

I knew exactly how it would play out; once I had contributed to it myself. I had been so completely enmeshed in the family's version of its own story. It wasn't until I became estranged myself, until I had distanced myself, that I started to look at things differently, but still slowly, taking baby steps, such is the power parental stories have over a child's concept of reality that it's almost impossible to free yourself.
And had I managed to free myself? Or was I still stuck, and had the name o ...more

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Vigdis Hjorth (born 1959) is a Norwegian novelist. She grew up in Oslo, and has studied philosophy, literature and political science.

In 1983, she published her first novel, the children's book "Pelle-Ragnar i den gule gården" for which she received Norsk kulturråd's debut award. Her first book for an adult audience was "Drama med Hilde" (1987). "Om bare" from 2001 is considered her most important ...more

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“Man blir ikke snill av å ha det vondt. I regelen blir man slem av å ha det vondt. Krangelen om hvem som har hatt det verst, er barnslig. I regelen forkrøples de undertrykkede og får et ødelagt følelsesliv, i regelen overtar de undertrykkede undertrykkerens tankegang og metoder, det er undertrykkelsens mest imfame konsekvens, at den ødelegger de undertrykkede og gjør dem mindre i stand til å frigjøre seg. Det skal hardt arbeid til for å gjøre lidelsen om til noe som er nyttig for noen, særlig for den lidende selv.” — 5 likes

“She practised losing with style and good grace and not ruining today by mourning yesterday's losses or fearing tomorrow's potential losses, to be like the lilies of the field and the birds of the heaven, which are present in the now, silent and obedient, to gather moments of joy with which she could warm herself if times get tough, she had a feeling that times might get tough.” — 2 likes

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