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Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.
Octavia E. Butler
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Civilization
Felt
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Novel
Out
Pain
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Pleasure
Several
Shared
Some
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