“Suffering makes us human. A person without suffering is just grass.”
Васіль Быкаў. Трэцяя ракета http://rv-blr.com/literature/charter/11223 // rv-blr.com (in Belarusian)
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Belarusian writer 1924–2003Related quotes

1840s, Past and Present (1843)

In Encyclical Letter Spe Salvi http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi_en.html (30 November 2007)
2007
Source: Darwin, God and the Meaning of Life: How Evolutionary Theory Undermines Everything You Think You Know (2010), p. 274

The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), VII : Love, Suffering, Pity