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“Man is a rationalizing beast, if not a rational one.”

“I watched him while he moved about in the nearby spinney below, bending and straightening, shaking snow from the sticks he found, and for some reason was reminded of the parable of Abraham and his son. Why should one serve a God who demanded such insane loyalty, who demanded that one deny the very humanity He was said to have created?”

“Do not speculate, Sedenko, on things for which no evidence exists. You will waste your time.”

“It is an extraordinary act of courage,' said Tulas Shorn, 'to come to know a stranger's pain.”

“I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.”

“A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.”

“the pain we suffer is a way to make us appreciate what comes next.”

“Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?”

“Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.”

“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”

“Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.”

“If my art has nothing to do with people's pain and sorrow, what is 'art' for?”

“He read it for the same reason an animal tears at a wounded foot: to hurt the pain.”

“every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain”

“I thought I'd lie on the floor and writhe in pain for awhile. It relaxes me.”

“The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.”

“As coal pressured into pearls by our weighty existence. Beauty that arose out of pain.”

“… The pain didn't bother me. In fact, I welcome it: It meant I was alive.”

“I feel the stars. Each sparkle sets aflame the pain in my heart.”