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Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.
Eleanor Catton The Luminaries
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Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.

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