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“For years this rule has kept me out of hopeless despair:
You simply do not feel what is always there.
I ask my brain to entertain that pain is the same,
that if I feel it all the time, can you really call it pain?”

“It is an extraordinary thing that this civilization, which wears out our nerves and exacts an almost painful effort from us in all our doings, should be at great pains to spare the mass of people that intellectual effort which is the only measure of true culture.”

“Some pain shouldn't be wished away so easily. It had to be dealt with, even embraced.”

“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”

“The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.”

“The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.”

“Because I show you my pain, I do not of necessity love you.”

“That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.”

“I just want to protect them no matter how much pain befalls me.”

“It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.”

“We must accept our pain
Change what we can
and laugh at the rest”

“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.”

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.”

“Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.”

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”

“I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.”

“One can bear anything. The pain we cannot bear will kill us outright.”

“Why not? Life is short, life is dull, life is full of pain - and this is a chance for something special.”

“If reassurances could dull pain, nobody would ever go to the trouble of pressing grapes.”