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"I've never met a girl who thinks like you." "A lot of people tell me that," she said, digging at a cuticle. "But it's the only way I know how to think. Seriously. I'm just telling you what I believe. It's never crossed my mind that my way of thinking is different from other people's. I'm not trying to be different. But when I speak out honestly, everybody thinks I'm kidding or playacting. When that happens, I feel like everything is such a pain!"

Believe Girl Pain
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Pain

"It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it."

Feelings Pain Alive
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Pain

"my heart would swell without warning, and tremble, and lurch with a stab of pain. I would try clamping my eyes shut and gritting my teeth, and waiting for it to pass. And it would pass -- but slowly, taking its own time, and leaving a dull ache behind."

Heart Eye Pain
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Pain

"The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older."

Years Character Pain
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Pain

"A life without pain: it was the very thing I had dreamed of for years, but now that I had it, I couldn’t find a place for myself within it. A clear gap separated me from it, and this caused me great confusion. I felt as if I were not anchored to this world - this world that I had hated so passionately until then; this world that I had continued to revile for its unfairness and injustice; this world where at least I knew who I was. Now the world ceased to be the world, and I had ceased to be me."

Years Pain Confusion
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Pain

"Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't leave me, I can take care of it. That agrees with my mentality."

Running Pain Essence
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Hayley Williams Singer, Songwriter
Pain

"Don't let pain define you. I do that a lot... but we can fight it all together. That's what I love about us and our fans. we fight together."

Fighting Pain Together
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Hayley Williams Singer, Songwriter
Pain

"now I'm told that this is life, that pain is just a simple comprimise so we can get what we want out of it. Would someone care to classify a broken heart and some twisted minds so I can find someone to rely on?"

Heart Pain Simple
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Pain

"People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen forget."

People Pain Hatred
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Pain

"You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]"

Thinking Pain Gratitude
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Hedrick Smith Journalist
Pain

"There is no question that policy makers, corporate leaders, pension consultants, and journalists too have to get out into the real world to at least see the pain of retirement woes before they start to prescribe policies and solutions."

Real Pain Retirement
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George Benjamin Composer
Pain

"When I lose direction, it becomes very hard to write. I actually get a physical pain, as if my subconscious knows better. That may sound mystical and pretentious, but it's true."

Writing Pain Sound
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George Carlin Comedian, Actor
Pain

"What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was wrong with them."

Pain Brother Pleasure
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Pain

"One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it."

Eye Pain Jealousy
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Pain

"When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change."

Thinking Heart Pain
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George Eliot Novelist, Poet, Journalist
Pain

"I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves."

Feelings Pain Paradise
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