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Sarah Moss

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b6281743919has quoted2 years ago
Edith is right that the purpose of a moral imperative is to justify harm. If it is sometimes necessary to suffer, it must also sometimes be necessary to cause suffering
b6281743919has quoted2 years ago
This, it seems to Ally, is the condition of human agency; our very lives cause harm to others and it is wilful blindness to pretend otherwise. We are all of us, every mortal soul, damaging persons. Our best hope, for salvation and for medicine – the thing, she thinks, that Mamma cannot do – is to own the damage we do. And to live with it
b6281743919has quoted2 years ago
Holy, whole, hale, healthy: Aubrey told her once that these are all the same word. None of those states is the human condition. The healers are not whole.
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