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"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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"Sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me ."
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"It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory."
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"I'd rather have names to hurt me, than my bones broken with sticks and stones."
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"Because of pain you feel more and so you live more."
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"The slightest pain that we have, is the reaction of the pain that we had given. So do what you find comfortable."
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"One fire burns out another's burning,One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish."
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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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"No, I say, it's fine.Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really."
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"Pain is the University of Life."
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"If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?"
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"Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."
Society
"True sorrow is as rare as true love."
Love
"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."
Truth
"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."
Time
"I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world."
Faith
"Now that he wanted to feel like he was having a bad dream, he wasn't. He was having a bad reality, and that was something from which you could not wake."
Experience
"It had been in their hands then; he was quite sure of it. But kids lose everything, kids have slippery fingers and holes in their pockets and they lose everything."
Loss
"To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex."
Nature
"A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is...like a life without pictures."
Literature
"The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size."
Mystery
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