We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering, ” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.

Simone Weil
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact....
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact....
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact....
We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact....
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The first line of a poem by American poet Emily Dickinson should be engraved on the gates of every school. In this quote, she describes a homesickness that can be felt by anyone who has ever been far from home. In her words, she claims that it is better to utter the painful truth, “I am suffering,” than to hold back those words and make those feelings go away. The pain is real and should be felt as such.

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