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From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was...

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Haruki MurakamiThe Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

I watched love and life play out in a million ways, but one of the best things I learned was this: Y...

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Jewel (singer)Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story

It's painful for me to watch someone who isn't funny. It's horrifying to sit in the back and watch s...

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At times he felt that he had almost rather not be in love with her, for it brought him no peace. Wha...

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...and then I began to drift, fighting tears. I used to come here with Miriam. Miriam, my heart's de...

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It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a brief space of time. The absence o...

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Oscar WildeThe Importance of Being Earnest

In the recumbence of depression, your information-gathering system collates its intelligence and rep...

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The monumental tragedies of the 20th century -- a world-wide Great Depression, two devastating World...

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It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisi...

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In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leave...

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Last night I wept. I wept because the process by which I have become woman was painful. I wept becau...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from exp...

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Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary w...

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Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

It is a curious and painful fact that almost all the completely futile treatments that have been bel...

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Bertrand RussellAn Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity

she...let the blood spill down instead of tears.

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Cassandra ClareCity of Heavenly Fire

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.