"Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth."

Pain, Emotion, Suffering, Life

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"Pain is very often a maimed creature without a mouth."

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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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"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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"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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"You are never more alive than when you are enraptured by pain."

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"Yesterday he had limped, but today there was no part of his feet that didn't hurt, so limping did no good."

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

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"Pain is the University of Life."

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