"The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief."
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"Through love, all pain will turn to medicine."
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"You fill yourself with the sharp pain of love, rather than its fulfillment."
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"But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memory the things that vanish, that are taken away. We fix them in our minds forever by yearning, by pain, by crying out. Pain, the pain that seems unbearable at the time, is memory's first imprinting step, the cornerstone of the temple we erect inside us in memory of the dead. Pain is part of memory, and memory is a God-given gift."
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"surrounded by strangers who love me (un)strangers made strange by pain"
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"Kill me then,' panted Harry, who felt no fear at all, but only rage and contempt. 'Kill me like you killed him, you coward-' DON'T-' screamed Snape, and his face was suddenly demented, inhuman, as though he was in as much pain as the yelping, howling dog stuck in the house behind them- 'CALL ME A COWARD!"
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"At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place."
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"Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain."
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"We won't let ourselves feel our anger, rage, and pain. We push it down or anesthetize it through drugs, alcohol, shopping, or whatever we do in order not to feel it. When that memory and the associated feelings get lodged down there in our soul, the feelings are still there. They don't just magically go away. We have to give ourselves the opportunity to feel them."
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"Most people don't walk around the tools to process pain and fear, that kind of discomfort. In most cases, it's unbearable to look at it, feel it, and/or address it. It's why I'm such a fan of self-help books."
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"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure."
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"I'm now convinced that I'm a doctor. I mean, if someone says they have a pain, I'm like, 'Well, that's your spleen.'"
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"Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting."
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"Pain and happiness are simply conditions of the ego. Forget the ego."
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"And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter."
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"If you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain."
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"The struggle of my life created empathy... I could relate to pain... being abandoned... having people not love me."
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"All pain is the same."
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"Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not real. What are you doing? Oh, you're really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I'll see you in an hour.'"
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"My joy is as painful as my pain."
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