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Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

Anna Katharine Green

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Anna Katharine Green
Age: 88 †
Born: 1846
Born: November 11
Died: 1935
Died: April 11
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Anna Katharine Green Rohlfs
Monotony
Flee
Apathy
Commonplace
Existence
Suffering
Fear
Experience
Quickest

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