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If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. but still, you resist it. because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering.
-W. S. Merwin
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If You Can't Bear What's Happening To

W. S. Merwin
If you can't bear what's happening to the natural world, if you can't bear the way we treat each other; if you can't bear wars, you just can't bear the whole idea of war, which is possibly unavoidable. but still, you resist it. because you just hate our treating each other that way and causing that suffering.
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