Indeed, the most intense feeling we know of, to the point of blotting out other experiences, namely, the experience of great pain, is at the same time the most private and least communicable of all.
(Quoted on page 23 of The Language of Pain: Finding Words, Compassion, and Relief, by David Biro. W. W. Norton, 2010)
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