"Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living."
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"Theological formation is the gradual and often painful discovery of God's incomprehensibility. You can be competent in many things, but you cannot be competent in God."
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"Why do we wear them? They're so painful."
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"Once you let yourself grow close to someone, cutting the ties could be painful."
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"If you're in a painful place, be there, feel it, but don't stay stuck there. Do what you've got to do to get out of there. And if you're in a really joyful place, believe that that's not going to last either."
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"Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained"
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"The life of men is painful."
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"If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life."
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"The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection."
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"The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint; the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him"
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"One of the most painful circumstances of recent advances in science is that each one makes us know less than we thought we did"
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"We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us."
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"With inquiry, every painful story unravels. Freedom is possible in every moment."
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"I think that shame is a universal, paralyzing, painful emotion."
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"The natural man inevitably rebels against mathematics, a mild form of torture that could only be learned by painful processes of drill."
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"There was nothing more painful than hurting someone you loved."
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"Love tends to end in a very painful goodbye."
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"I appeal now to the convictions of the communicants, and ask such persons whether they have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ."
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"Those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!"
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"There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation."
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