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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."
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"No one can hurt you without teaching a life's lesson. So accept it with love and kindness."
"Who gives you pain? Your anger, pride, illusion and greed. Where is the fault of the nature in all this?"
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