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Bill Bradley

"There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is."

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"There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is."

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"What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?"

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"Tavi spent an eternity in misery, longing for death to bring sweet release from the unrelenting torment. The others gathered at the side of his bunk on the ship, keeping a deathwatch over him."I don't see what all the drama is about," Demos said, his quiet voice filled with habitual disinterst. "He's seasick. It will pass."~Captain's Fury."

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"Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time."

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"Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy."

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"Given a choice, I would never want a life totally devoid of pain, but life is meaningless without some sadness."

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"Only pain can define the meaning of tears."

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"How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding."

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"Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed."

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"Sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me ."

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"Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing too many times, you can always walk away. To risk a lifetime without pleasure simply to avoid pain is ludicrous."

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