"Nothing is more personal, more unsharable, than pain; the worst thing about suffering is that you suffer alone. Yet, those who have not suffered or will not admit that they have suffered, are those who are cut off in cold isolation from their fellow men. Pain, the lonliest experience, gives rise to sympathy, to love: the bridge between self and other. So with art. The artist who goes into himself most deeply - and it is a painful journey - is the artist who touches us most closely, speaks to us most clearly."

- Ursula K. LeGuin, from The Language of the Night, 1976

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