Both Uses of
compassion
in
The Perils of Indifference
- And even if he lives to be a very old man, he will always be grateful to them for that rage, and also for their compassion.†
*compassion = sympathy for another's suffering and wanting to help
- A strange and unnatural state in which the lines blur between light and darkness, dusk and dawn, crime and punishment, cruelty and compassion, good and evil.†