EXTORTING OBLIGATORY COMPASSION: "There are two kinds of disabled person: those who make much of their problem, proclaim their handicap noisily, extorting obligatory compassion from us, and the self-effacing ones who bear their cross in silence, but who, if we come upon them privately, allow us to sense the aura of a constrained but rich existence, one that makes the lives of those of us in good health seem strangely impoverished." – Andreï Makine, in "Brief Loves That Live Forever" [p24], translated from the French by Geoffrey Strachan. 2013. London: MacLehose Press, an imprint of Quercus.
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