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"If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?"
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"Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder."
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"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."
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"There's wall of agony between dreams and reality."
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"One man may shoot himself in the forehead with a .38 and wake up in the hospital. Another may shoot himself in the forehead with a .22 and wake up in hell...if there is such a place. I tend to believe it's here on earth, possibly in New Jersey."
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"She gave me for my pains a world of sighs."
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"I reached up with my finger and traced the scar over my eyebrow, remembering when that was the greatest hurt I'd ever known."
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"The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back."
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"The only end to your pain is through fully consuming it and digesting it, otherwise it will consume you."
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"It is a pain in the ass waiting around for someone to try to kill you."
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"Sheep hurt my father, and through my father, sheep have also hurt me."
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"If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair."
Friendship
"All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it."
Experience
"It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached."
Progress
"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex."
Power
"A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner."
Man
"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."
Hope
"Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments."
Man
"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."
Happiness
"Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates."
Grief
"Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel."
Time
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