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"Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations."
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"What will break me into a million pieces so that I am beyond repair, beyond usefulness?"
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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."
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"Don't lick your wounds unless you care to taste the sting a second time."
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"Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy."
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"Given a choice, I would never want a life totally devoid of pain, but life is meaningless without some sadness."
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"Only pain can define the meaning of tears."
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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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"Some pain has no relief,it can only be sealed You can grasp the wound to feel the scar unhealed."
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"Sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me ."
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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."
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"The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind."
Fact
"Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view."
Power
"The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses."
Experience
"Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations."
Pain
"The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life."
Life
"The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies."
Ego
"A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough."
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"Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance."
Science
"Physics is experience, arranged in economical order."
Experience
"The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a means of orientating himself as possible. No other scientific ideal can be realised, and any other must be meaningless."
Science
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