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• I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain. I don't mean sexually. I mean in connection with my writing.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Mean, Missing

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• Audrey was the kind of person who when she saw someone else suffering tried to take their pain on herself. She was a healer. She knew how to love. You didn't have to be in constant contact with her to feel you had a friend. We always picked up right where we left off.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Love You, Suffering, Saws

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• Vengeous scowled. 'As you can see,' he said, 'you are vastly outnumbered.' I usually am.' Your situation has become quite untenable.' It usually does.' You are within moments of being swarmed by these filthy creatures of undeath and torn apart in a maelstrom of pain and fury.' Skulduggery paused. 'Okay, that's a new one on me.

  Derek Landy

  Doe, Torn Apart, Maelstrom

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• My mother says that pain is hidden in everyone you see. She says try to imagine it like big bunches of flowers that everyone is carrying around with them. Think of your pain like a big bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Beautiful, Mother, Flower

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• Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

  Shan Sa

  Games, Battle, Siege

  "The Girl Who Played Go: A Novel". Book by Shan Sa, www.washingtonpost.com. 2007.

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• Pain is life. Life is pain.

  Katherine Applegate

  Life Is, Life Is Pain

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• Sometimes I think it's better to suffer bitter unhappiness and to fight and to scream out, and even to suffer that terrible pain, than to just be... safe. At least she knows she's living.

  Betty Smith

  Fighting, Thinking, Suffering

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your tears. Use your pain. Use your fear. Get mad. Arnold, get mad.

  Sherman Alexie

  Life, Mad, Tears

  Sherman Alexie (2016). “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian”, p.137, Random House

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• When one of us tells the truth, he makes it easier for all of us to open our hearts to our pain and that of others.

  Mary Pipher

  Heart, Telling The Truth, Easier

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• I am so honored to be the vessel into which you pour this story of pain and strength.

  Anita Diament

  Stories, Honored, Vessel

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• We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.

  Henry Cloud

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  FaceBook post by Henry Cloud from Dec 22, 2016

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• Just as there are laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed. But one can be converted into the other.

  Spider Robinson

  Law, Joy, Matter

  "Callahan's Crosstime Saloon". Book by Spider Robinson, 1977.

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• There are no words and there is no singing, but the music has a voice. It is an old voice and a deep voice, like the stump of a sweet cigar or a shoe with a hole. It is a voice that has lived and lives, with sorrow and shame, ecstasy and bliss, joy and pain, redemption and damnation. It is a voice with love and without love. I like the voice, and though I can't talk to it, I like the way it talks to me. It says it is all the same, Young Man. Take it and let it be.

  James Frey

  Sweet, Men, Shoes

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”

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• ...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Children

  Victor Hugo, Frederic Shoberl (1834). “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame”, p.135

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• But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Years, Essence, Despair

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• Why do we have such a finite capacity for pleasure but an infinite one for pain?

  Marian Keyes

  Infinite, Pleasure, Capacity

  Marian Keyes (2005). “The Other Side of the Story”, p.218, Penguin UK

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• She wanted to feel him pound away her fears, a hammer to smash through all her guilt and pain and emptiness.

  Tina St. John

  Guilt, Hammers, Pounds

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• And just when I thought the pain had dulled, my mind would betray me and bring Dad back to life in my dreams. Sometimes I didn't realize that he was dead until I awoke and then it was like a punch in the stomach. And sometimes I knew in my dream that I was dreaming, and I woke up crying.

  Ilona Andrews

  Dream, Dad, Mind

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.80, Penguin

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• What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Mean, Artist, Sometimes

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• But adulthood," continued the barely twentysomething, "doesn't give you power over what matters most. It doesn't protect you from pain, loss, fate. That's part of being human.

  Cynthia Leitich Smith

  Loss, Fate, What Matters

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• He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Flower, Heart, Blood

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.268, Pan Macmillan

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• To write with taste, in the highest sense, is to write [...] so that no one commits suicide, no one despairs; to write [...] so that people understand, sympathize, see the universality of pain, and feel strengthened, if not directly encouraged to live on. If there is good to be said, the writer should say it. If there is bad to be said, he should say it in a way that reflects the truth that, though we see the evil, we choose to continue among the living. The true artist [...] gets his sense of worth and honor from his conviction that art is powerful--

  John Gardner

  Suicide, Art, Powerful

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• Speaking psycho-analytically, it may be laid down that any "great ideal" which people mention with awe is really an excuse for inflicting pain on their enemies. Good wine needs no bush, and good morals need no bated breath.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wine, People, Enemy

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.240, Routledge

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• Shadow had heard too many people telling each other not to repress their feelings, to let their emotions out, let the pain go. Shadow thought there was a lot to be said for bottling up emotions. If you did it long enough and deep enough, he suspected, pretty soon you wouldn't feel anything at all.

  Neil Gaiman

  Long, People, Feelings

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• On the other side of pain, there is still love.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Love, Deep Thought, Sides

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