"And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!"
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"You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm."
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"You must either conquer and rule or serve and lose, suffer or triumph, be the anvil or the hammer."
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"People will always despise you if you end up doing less stupid BS than they choose to suffer."
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"Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!"
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"And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy."
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"Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated."
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"If there is suffering, then it's best to accept it, because it won't go away just because you pretend it's not there. If there is joy, then it's best to accept that too, even though you're afraid it might end one day."
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"Only three things can change our lives dreams, suffering and love"
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"I like a look of Agony, because I know it's true - men do not sham Convulsion, nor simulate, a Throe"
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"Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers."
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"If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it."
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"Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional."
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"Most plants taste better when they've had to suffer a little."
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"Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die , don't ask me why !"
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""Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards"."
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"Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering."
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"Suffering lets us see where are attachments are - and that helps us get free."
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"Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!"
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"Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy."
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