When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts frustrated, it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

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Accept, accept that I have won, whispers the Devil. You can see for yourself that life is unjust, unfair, that suffering is ordinary. Who is stronger? I am, of course. Just despair, my dear, despair. Only tell me that I am strong, that Evil rules.

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All that the Devil asks is acquiescence.

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