"Memories sharp enough to cut himself on - the smells, the sounds, the feel of the air on his skin, the desperate hope and mad anger."

Pain, Memories, Hope, Anger

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"Memories sharp enough to cut himself on - the smells, the sounds, the feel of the air on his skin, the desperate hope and mad anger."

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"What was wrong with me? I had a decent life. I was healthy. I wasn't starving or maimed by a land mine or orphaned. Yet somehow, it wasn't enough. I had a hole in me, and everything I took for granted slipped through it like sand.I felt like I had swallowed yeast, like whatever evil was festering inside me had doubled in size."

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"Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again."

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"Therefore coercion of the non-invasive, when justifiable at all, is to be justified on the ground that it secures, not a minimum of ' invasion, but a minimum of pain."

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"Remorse is the pain of sin."

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"And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing."

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"No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness."

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"I must never equate the degree of pain as evidencing the incorrectness of a decision, for if I do I will default on some of the most critical decisions I should have ever made."

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

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"What's the difference? Fill a hundred pits with dead Northmen, congratulations, have a parade! Kill one man in the same uniform as you? A crime. A murder. Worse than despicable. Are we not all men? All blood and bone and dreams?"

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"You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living."

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"Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got."

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"I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them."

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"Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter."

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"It was like staring at a whitewashed wall, but without all the emotion."

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"The world is all change, my friend. We all would like to go back, but the past is done. We must look forwards. We must change ourselves, however painful it may be, or be left behind."

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"Empathy? What's that? Glokta winced as he rubbed at his aching leg. 'It's a sad fact, but pain only makes you sorry for yourself."

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"You can always make enemies of your friends,' said Sumael. 'Making friends of your enemies is harder labor."

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"He blamed every fucker available excepting, of course, the one who was actually to blame, the one sitting in his saddle and getting colder, hungrier, and more lost with every unpleasant moment. 'Shit!' he roared at nothing."

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