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Compassion - Ethics - Fairness - Generosity - Responsibility - Stewardship
Poverty is a reaper: it harvests everything inside us that might have made us capable of social intercourse with others, and leaves us empty, purged of feeling, so that we may endure all the darkness of the present day.
  • Author: Muriel Barbery
  • Contributor: Tavia
  • Universal Ethics
  • Europe
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Source type: Book
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
Page page 288
Published in 2008
http://amazon.com
Contribution #4498


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