"If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved."

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"If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved."

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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."

Jim Butcher, American Author

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"Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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Terry Pratchett, English Author

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"Given a choice, I would never want a life totally devoid of pain, but life is meaningless without some sadness."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

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"Only pain can define the meaning of tears."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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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."

Sherman Alexie, American Writer

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"Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed."

Munia Khan, Bangladeshi Poet

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"Sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me ."

Maggie Stiefvater, American Author

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"Of course, being open and vulnerable will lead us to, sometimes, experience pain. But what is pain? It is simply a feeling. It is not forever. If you get pain from some person or thing too many times, you can always walk away. To risk a lifetime without pleasure simply to avoid pain is ludicrous."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

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"She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy."

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"The mind of the Renaissance was not a pilgrim mind, but a sedentary city mind, like that of the ancients."

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"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."

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"America is a young country with an old mentality."

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"Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it."

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"Man is as full of potentiality as he is of impotence."

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"For an idea ever to be fashionable is ominous since it must afterwards be always old-fashioned."

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"It is wisdom to believe the heart."

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"Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."

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