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For all the happiness Mankind can gain
Is not in pleasure, but in rest from pain. — John Dryden · 1665Feminist literature1 quote
Pain is an event, an experience that must be recognized, named, and then used in some way in order for the experience to change, to be transformed into something else, strength or knowledge or action. — Audre Lorde · 1984Modernist literature1 quote
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey. — Marcel Proust · 1922