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title: "2 Urging Pain Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery? We are not formed for enjoyment; and, however we may be attuned to the reception of pleasureable emotion, disappointment is the never-failing pilot…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/what-is-there-in-our-nature-that-is-for-ever-urging-us-on-towards/)

[Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-wollstonecraft-shelley/)

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> [“What is there in our nature that is for ever urging us on towards pain and misery?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mary-shelley/what-is-there-in-our-nature-that-is-for-ever-urging-us-on-towards-2/)

[Mary Shelley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mary-shelley/)

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