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The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

Gregory David Roberts

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
Author
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
Suffering
Happiness
Balm
Relieved
Burden

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