Quotes

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“If you wake up feeling no pain, you know you're dead. (Russian expression)”

Source: The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

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“You have to learn to smile through your pain. Sometimes it’s all we got.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of the Night

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“He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books
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“There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.”

Charles Darwin (1809–1882) British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by means of natural selection"
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