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quoted in Daily Telegraph (London, July 21, 1986)

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Pain hardens, and great pain hardens greatly, whatever the comforters say, and suffering does not ennoble, though it may occasionally lend a certain rigid dignity of manner to the suffering frame.

A.S. Byatt

A.S. (Antonia Susan) Byatt (b. 1936), British author. Quoted in Daily Telegraph (London, July 21, 1986).

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