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"It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure."
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"Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?"
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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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"She'd felt more pain from Nico in their brief connection than she had from her entire legion during the battle against the giant Polybotes."
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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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"Failure is information encased in a shell of pain."
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"Pain is as expansive as life itself. Pain grows with us and in us as a cultivation of life's unfolding."
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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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"One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush."
Shame
"So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public."
Privacy
"Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?"
Nation
"Woman's destiny is to be wanton, like the bitch, the she-wolf; she must belong to all who claim her."
Destiny
"Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates."
Nature
"The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providence moves to achieve the designs it has for man."
Philosophy
"All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one."
Nature
"Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain."
Liberty
"Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes."
Character
"They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch."
Philosophy
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