A blue-grey flower is visible through a small clear circle in a frosted glass pane.

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Dexter Morgan

I see their pain. On some level I even understand their pain. I just can’t feel their pain.

— Dexter • 2007

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What it means

Our interpretation.

A chilly self-description of emotional distance in three steps: seeing someone's suffering, grasping it intellectually, and still not feeling it. The build-up makes the final phrase land as an admission of a gap between knowing and feeling.

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