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Willa Cather quote: "People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but..."

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

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Do I want to, can I face my own pain alone now? Shock keeps horror at bay. Hands off. Distanced by mist and pride and drink and friends and necessities like food, babies, fires... So the pain sits still, crouching, heavy, occupying all my inside, always, all the time, whatever my outside does. Elizabeth Smart
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Pierre had for the first time experienced that strange and fascinating feeling in the Slobodsky palace, when he suddenly felt that wealth and power and life, all that men build up and guard with such effort ,is only worth anything through the joy with which it can all be cast away. Leo Tolstoy
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Barry Gibb quote: "The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto."
The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto. Barry Gibb
Frost in January minus 20 for a week. Dead birds frozen on the branch—they fall with the first thaw like ripe fruit—death-ripened. We shall all end like them—just a stain in the snow. Lawrence Durrell
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