More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat...

Saul Bellow
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The quote says that suffering can be cruelly crushing, but it also teaches us to take the view that suffering is the ultimate defeat of humanity. Pain is the ultimate enemy of human beings. It destroys our bodies and our souls. And, when we are no longer human, it ends our existence altogether.

Source: Herzog

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