Somewhere you can hear them whimpering, as if the evidence of their own mortality were emphasised by the knowledge of other people's happiness. (Michael Moorcock)

Somewhere you can hear them whimpering, as if the evidence of their own mortality were emphasised by the knowledge of other people's happiness.

Michael Moorcock

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