“Gratitude is a burden, and every burden is made to be shaken off.”
Denis Diderot book Rameau's Nephew
La reconnaissance est un fardeau, et tout fardeau est fait pour être secoué.
Rameau's Nephew (1762)
“The burden of the incommunicable.”
Pt. I.
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822-1856)
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