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Samuel Johnson

"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"

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"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"

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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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"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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