This story sounds as though it were invented, but it is true from beginning to end. There are people who have to pay for the smallest things in life with their very substance and their spinal cord. That is a constantly recurring pain, and then when they are tired of suffering… Does not mother love belong to the ‘smallest’, but also indispensable, things in life, for which many people paradoxically have to pay by giving up their living selves? . Alice Miller
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This story sounds as though it were invented, but it is true from beginning to end. This quote from a letter from Charles Dickens says that he had a friend who was a victim of the system and who must have been a victim of a failed system. Many people have to pay for the smallest things in life with their very substance and their spinal cord. That is a constantly recurring pain, and then when they are tired of suffering, they have to pay with their very lives.

Source: The Drama Of The Gifted Child: The Search For The True Self

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