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Difficult as it is really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to know that compassion is listening to him.
Simone Weil
Simone Weil
Simone Weil
Born: Feb 3, 1909
Died: Aug 24, 1943

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Listening, Compassion, Affliction, Difficult, Someone, Know, Him, Listen, Just, Really

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