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"Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations."
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"The ego is as little absolutely permanent as are bodies."
Ego
"Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again."
Time
"When I recall today my early youth, I should take the boy that I then was, with the exception of a few individual features, for a different person, were it not for the existence of the chain of memories."
Existence
"Physics is experience, arranged in economical order."
Experience
"Bodies do not produce sensations, but complexes of elements (complexes of sensations) make up bodies."
Sensations
"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 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
"Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience."
Experience
"The task which we have set ourselves is simply to show why and for what purpose we hold that standpoint during most of our lives, and why and for what purpose we are provisionally obliged to abandon it."
Purpose
"Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations."
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"Sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me ."
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"It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory."
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"I'd rather have names to hurt me, than my bones broken with sticks and stones."
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"Because of pain you feel more and so you live more."
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"The slightest pain that we have, is the reaction of the pain that we had given. So do what you find comfortable."
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"One fire burns out another's burning,One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish."
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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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"No, I say, it's fine.Put a gun to my head and paint the wall with my brains. Just great, I say. Really."
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"Pain is the University of Life."
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"If your tears have lost the ability to hide your pain... why shedding them?"
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