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From Beware of Pity, by Stefan Zweig, translated by Phyllis and Trevor Blewitt

THE FACT

"I began to have an inkling of the fact (supressed by most writers) that the outcasts, the branded, the ugly, the withered, the deformed, the despised and rejected, desire with a more passionate, far more dangerous avidity than the happy; that they love with a fanatical, a baleful, a black love, and that no passion on earth rears its head so greedily, so desperately, as the forlorn and hopeless passion of these step-children of God, who feel that they can only justify their earthly existence by loving and being loved."

From page 206, this edition