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> [“We have to put ourselves through it to feel we’re alive. We thrive in the extremes of unparalleled joy and abject misery. What we can’t much tolerate is the middle ground.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carol-mason/we-have-to-put-ourselves-through-it-to-feel-we-re-alive-we-thrive-in/)

[Carol Mason](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carol-mason/)

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