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I reflected that without language, or before language, the mind cannot comfort itself.
And yet it is the language of our thoughts that tortures us more than any excess or deprivation of nature.
Only in the living of it does life seem ordinary. In the telling of it we find ourselves strangers among the strange.
What is the point of progress if it benefits the few while the many suffer?
