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Pain is the biggest power of love." That's what Wireman says.

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A hurt body and mind aren’t just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusio...more

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Sometimes the only thing to do is to take the thing that you must have. Even if someone gets hurt.

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I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life...It wasn't what I thought it would be at all. It didn't put an end to me as a person. I thi...more

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I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life, he would tell the others. It wasn't what I thought it would be at all. It didn't put an end...more

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For a moment he felt a wild hope: perhaps this really was a nightmare. Perhaps he would awake in his own bed, bathed in sweat, shaking, maybe even cry...more

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...there were those who might have suggested that reality is a highly untrustworthy concept, something perhaps no more solid than a piece of canvas st...more

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They were with him, and for that little while the darkness was kind.

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His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed up. It was not only warme...more

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The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redund...more

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The memories: they are the reality.

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What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief f...more

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Cat can have kittens in the oven, girl, but that won’t ever make em muffins.

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Pain rises. From the heart to the head pain rises.

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There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recove...more