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How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?
Approximate author period: c. 1824 AD · industrial
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- Arthur Schopenhauer
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- Approximate author period: c. 1824 AD · industrial
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