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It is when suffering finds a voice andsets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

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I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out ofexistence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

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For it is just this question of pain that partsus. So long as visible or audible pain turns you sick; so long as your ownpains drive you; so long as p...more

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We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

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You have dwelt overmuch upon pain. Pain is a swift distress; it ends and is forgotten. Without memory and fear pain is nothing, a contradiction to be ...more