"I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside."
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"Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge."
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"There is no detachment where there is no pain. And there is no pain endured without hatred or lying unless detachment is present too."
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"Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain... The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself--ultimate cost for perfect value"
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"The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities."
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"Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain."
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"There is no limit to childishness, if a person starts attacking the other one, they just strike back. Your weak point? Secret? They won't avoid it, and instead try to hurt you with it. So the reason you're fighting is totally lost. They'll just start thinking about how to hurt the other person most, so much that they'll cry out in pain."
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"What a weird thing smoking is and I can't stop it. I feel cosy, have a sense of well-being when I'm smoking, poisoning myself, killing myself slowly. Not so slowly maybe. I have all kinds of pains I don't want to know about and I know that's what they're from. But when I don't smoke I scarcely feel as if I'm living. I don't feel as if I'm living unless I'm killing myself."
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"Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed."
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"Every need brings what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child. Having nothing produces provisions. Ask a difficult question, And the marvelous answer appears."
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"A good Dianetic auditor can take a broken-down, sorrow-drenched lady of thirty-eight and knock out her past periods of physical and mental pain and have on his hands somebody who appears to be twenty-five-and a bright, cheerful twenty-five at that."
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"I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them, snatching up a lunascope and throwing it into the fireplace. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!"
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"The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice"
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"Only the one that hurts you can make you feel better. Only the one that inflicts pain can take it away"
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"I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work."
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"Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything."
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"Sunlight is painting."
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"No; I did not hate him. The word is too weak. There is no word in the language strong enough to describe my feelings. I can say only that I knew the gnawing of a desire for vengeance on him that was a pain in itself and that exceeded all the bounds of language."
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"There's no way that I know of to avoid pain absolutely, but suffering is the interpretation we choose to place on the pain we encounter."
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"Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey."
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