“…whenever in the course of my life I have come across … truly
saintly embodiments of practical charity, they have generally had the
cheerful, practical, brusque and unemotioned air of a busy surgeon,
the sort of face in which one can discern no commiseration, no
tenderness at the sight of suffering humanity, no fear of hurting it,
the impassive, unsympathetic, sublime face of true goodness.”
Marcel Proust – French author in Swann’s Way
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