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Polly Toynbee

"Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal."

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"Maybe you receive pain selfishly - thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant, both victim and aggressor."

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"People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them and be blinded to all the good your heart has to offer. They look no further than what they want to see. Unfortunately, most of them remain a victim throughout their life."

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"Crossing the Rubicon of absolute pain is the only journey of purpose and meaning in life."

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"When I was working on the book "The Life Of One Kid 7", I just felt the pain of the wound, I asked myself why it hurts.... one moment when my mother has went outside I just realise that she has turn on the fucking machine for making the weather inside hot. For god sake, this stop's thinking and makes depression!"

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Amber Hurdle

"The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons."

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Amber Hurdle

"The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain."

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Amber Hurdle

"Sometimes the pain is a startling breach that hobbles your entire soul, dreadful losses that rupture your perceived reality. Pain so visceral and unrelenting that even death itself can begin to look like a welcomed and kind benefactor."

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"When we can't let go of the past, painful moments accumulate in us; metastasizing in our consciousness like an emotional cancer."

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Amber Hurdle

"They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer."

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Amber Hurdle

"I am disgrac'd impeach'd and baffled here - Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear."

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