Dave Eggers - Pain Quotes

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You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.

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The pain is not great. But the symbolism is disagreeable.

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Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

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Suffering is only suffering if it's done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

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Humans are divided between those who can still look through the eyes of youth and those who cannot. Though it causes me frequent pain, I find it very easy to place myself in the shoes of almost any boy, and can conjure my own youth with an ease that is troublesome.

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