“Is your own existence so replete with equanimity you find no outlet for worry except on behalf of others?”

— Iain Banks , Culture series

Source: Culture series, Look to Windward (2000), Chapter 3 “Infra Dawn” (p. 67)

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Scottish writer 1954–2013

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