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• An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Believe, Reading, Age

  Michel Houellebecq (2011). “Whatever: A Novel”, p.12, Profile Books

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• She knew that what she was going through was nothing special, just garden-variety heartbreak, the sort of thing that poets and novelists had been writing about for hundreds of years, but she also knew, from those same books, that there were people who never recover form it, ones who go on through life beset by a dim and painful longing.

  Sarah Dunn

  Relationship, Book, Writing

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• She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a phantom limb. Gone but still there. And like a true phantom limb, the preponderance of feelings associated with him were painful.

  Sarah Dunn

  Falling In Love, Feelings, Gone

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• Honor was never taking the easy way when it was also the wrong one. Never telling a falsehood unless the truth was painful and unnecessary, or a lie was necessary to save others. Never manipulating the truth to serve only yourself. Protecting the weak and helpless; standing fast even when fear made you weak. Keeping your word.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Lying, Honor, Way

  Mercedes Lackey (2003). “Exile's Honor”, p.88, Penguin

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• In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

  May Sarton

  Mistake, Optimistic, Past

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.2, Open Road Media

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• The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father.

  Frank Peretti

  Pain, Father, Lying

  Frank Peretti (2012). “Prophet: A Novel”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• The beast attempts a beautific look that could be mistaken for a bout of painful wind.

  Libba Bray

  Wind, Looks, Beast

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• Out of its squalor and human decay, its eruptions of butchery, India produced so many people of grace and beauty, ruled by elaborate courtesy. Producing too much life, it denied the value of life; yet it permitted a unique human development to so many. Nowhere were people so heightened, rounded and individualistic; nowhere did they offer themselves so fully and with such assurance. To know Indians was to take a delight in people as people; every encounter was an adventure. I did not want India to sink [out of my memory]; the mere thought was painful.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Memories, Adventure, Unique

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• I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

  Kirby Larson

  Teacher, Rely

  Kirby Larson (2007). “Hattie Big Sky”, p.14, Yearling

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• Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes a struggle so lonely and grim that even Hillary Clinton has admitted "it takes a village".

  David James Duncan

  Spiritual, Lonely, Couple

  David James Duncan (2007). “God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right”, p.99, Triad Institute, Inc.

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• Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Karma, Art, Peace

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• Life is so often unfair and painful and love is hard to find and you have to take it whenever and wherever you can get it, no matter how brief it is or how it ends.

  Jenna Blum

  Love Is, And Love, Matter

  Jenna Blum, Maggie O'Farrell, Molly Gloss, Nicole Mones, Elizabeth Benedict (2010). “The Best Contemporary Women's Fiction: Six Novels”, p.485, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How much easier my life would be if I did not love you! I thought. How much less painful, but how much plainer. How much less color there would be in the world.

  Cameron Dokey

  Love You, Color, Would Be

  Cameron Dokey, Mahlon F. Craft (2008). “Sunlight and Shadow: A Retelling of "The Magic Flute"”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Relationships always sounded so physically painful: you fell in love, you broke a heart, you lost your head. Was it any wonder that people came through the experience with battle scars?

  Jodi Picoult

  Love You, Heart, People

  Jodi Picoult (2006). “The Tenth Circle: A Novel”, p.205, Simon and Schuster

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• In times of pain, when the future is too terrifying to contemplate and the past too painful to remember, I have learned to pay attention to right now. The precise moment I was in was always the only safe place for me.

  Julia Cameron

  Inspirational, Life, Pain

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.82, Souvenir Press

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• The last few hours were certainly very painful," replied Anne: "but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-

  Jane Austen

  Pain, Remembrance, Suffering

  Jane Austen (2013). “Making Sense of Persuasion! a Students Guide to Austen's (Includes Study Guide, Biography, and Modern Retelling)”, p.404, BookCaps Study Guides

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• one of the best and the most painful things about time traveling has been the opportunity to see my mother alive.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Mother, Opportunity, Alive

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• She was the most painful, most glorious dance of his life

  Anne Bishop

  Glorious

  Anne Bishop (2007). “Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2”, p.333, Penguin

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• One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

  Helen Keller

  Next, Self Discipline, Easier

  Helen Keller (2015). “The Story of My Life: Top Biography”, p.76, 谷月社

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• Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?

  David Levithan

  Love, Wish, Essentials

  David Levithan (2014). “Two Boys Kissing”, p.9, Egmont UK

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• It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.

  Kevin Brooks

  Dark, Disease, Wonder

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• I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

  Edith Wharton

  Noses, Red, Cry

  Edith Wharton (2008). “The House of Mirth (EasyRead Large Bold Edition)”, p.379, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain. The future cannot be separated from the present, and the present is painful beyond solace. ‘This is my last experiment,’ wrote a young chemist in his suicide note. ‘If there is any eternal torment worse than mine I’ll have to be shown.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Suicide, Suicidal, Thinking

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2011). “Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide”, p.93, Vintage

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• I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.

  Elizabeth Chandler

  Falling In Love, Hurt, Unrequited Love

  Elizabeth Chandler (2010). “Don't Tell”, p.193, Simon and Schuster

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• To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

  Edward Gibbon

  Mind, Indolence, Labor

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

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