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gold. Our lives are not in our bodies, but are distributed things, partly contained in us, partly in those persons and institutions which make up the landscape of our lives.
But the impact of childhood, I have found, does not diminish. Not after a hundred years, not after five.
“Or maybe Edouard’s god is not the only thing out there shaping life in its image.”
We are beasts of burden, we men. We struggle, and by that struggle are filled.
“Pain teaches mercy,” I said. “You suffer so that you understand suffering, so that you do not inflict it without need. Pain makes us human, teaches us to be . . . human.”