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Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies. – Erich Fromm

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To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. – Oscar Wilde

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Better bread with water than cake with trouble. – Russian Proverb

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