"Anyone who has gone through great suffering is bound to have a greater sympathy and understanding of the problems of mankind."
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"Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done."
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"Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have."
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"At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning."
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"What thou avoidest suffering thyself seek not to impose on others."
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"No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery."
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"It is through suffering that learning comes."
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"I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged."
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"Suffering brings experience."
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"We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible."
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"We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)"
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"The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it."
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"The word of God teaches that Christians suffer in order that they might glorify God in their lives."
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"I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer."
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"If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing, I say kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity."
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"Men cry because things are not what they ought to be."
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"Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts."
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"How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?"
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"On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear."
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"A morality that holds need as a claim, holds emptiness-non-existence-as its standard of value; it rewards an absence, a defect: weakness, inability, incompetence, suffering, disease, disaster, the lack, the fault, the flaw-the zero."
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