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“ Empathy comes from the Greek empatheia - em (into) and pathos (feeling) - a penetration, a kind of travel. It suggests you enter another person's pain as you'd enter another country, through immigration and customs, border crossing by way of query: What grows where you are? What are the laws? What animals graze there? ”

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A cry for attention is positioned as a crime, as if attention were inherently a selfish thing to want. But isn’t wanting attention one of the most fundamental traits of being human—and isn’t granting it one of the most important gifts we can ever give?

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Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.

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We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.

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Freedom from one man is just another one.

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