“Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?”

Vorkosigan Saga, Barrayar (1991)
Context: But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain?

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