Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why. (Nadine Gordimer)

Humans, the only self-regarding animals, blessed or cursed with this torturing higher faculty, have always wanted to know why.

Nadine Gordimer

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