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Saint Therese of Lisieux
(1873 - 1897)

picture of Saint Therese of Lisieux

"What is the good of writing beautiful things about suffering? ...It means nothing, nothing! When you are going through it, then you know the worthlessness of all this eloquence."

[St Therese when refused pain medication; see Saint Therese of Lisieux
by Monica Furlong (pub. Virago Pantheon Pioneers, 1987)]
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