Pain brought me to myself. Perhaps that is what pain is for; or perhaps it is only the chain forged to bind us to the eternal present, forged in a smithy we can but guess at, by a smith we do not know.
- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun, p.88
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Pain brought me to myself. Perhaps that is what pain is for; or perhaps it is only the chain forged to bind us to the eternal present, forged in a smithy we can but guess at, by a smith we do not know.
- Gene Wolfe, The Urth of the New Sun, p.88
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