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Crying is the refuge of plain women, but the ruin of pretty ones.

—Thucydides

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People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

—Unknown

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The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

—Victor Hugo

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Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

—Unknown

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If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

—Unknown

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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

—Russell Baker

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What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you.

—Jodi Picoult in The Storyteller

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Great artists suffer for the people.

—Marvin Gaye

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Knowing he was suffering pained me. That's the way love tangles you up. I couldn't stop loving him, and couldn't shut off the feelings of wanting to care for him—but I also didn't have to run to answer his letters. I was hurting, too, and no one was running to me.

—Paula McLain in The Paris Wife

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My father . . . used to say, "I need my anger. It obliges me to take action." I think my father was partly right. Anger arises, naturally, to signal disturbing situations that might require action. But actions initiated in anger perpetuate suffering. The most effective actions are those conceived in the wisdom of clarity.

—Sylvia Boorstein

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The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

—Michel de Montaigne

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For, as wolves and tigers gorge themselves with flesh and lick their gory chops, so do nations gorge themselves with human victims, not in detail, but in masses, by wholesale.

—Henry C. Wright

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The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level.

—Norman Mailer

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Once I wanted total happiness – now I will settle for a little less pain.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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