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To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.

Robert Louis Stevenson
Fire, Suffering, Remains
Robert Louis Stevenson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson (Illustrated)”, p.6372, Delphi Classics
To have suffered ... sets a keen edge on what remains of the agreeable. This is a great truth and has to be learned in the fire.