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“But there is no value to suffering! There is only value, said Derek, to overcoming suffering and seeking to spare others the suffering one has known oneself!” quote by Anne Rice — Download Open image

““But there is no value to suffering! There is only value, said Derek, to overcoming suffering and seeking to spare others the suffering one has known oneself!””

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But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.

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“There had never been any talent, any talent to draw or paint or to make music or to write or to make any of the wonderful and beautiful things he'd loved. There was only the keen eye to appreciate it, the heartbreaking capacity to perceive talent in others all around...only a gentleman's means could have kept him close to the…

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All the stories I have told you are finally as useless as all ancient knowledge is to man and to us. Its images and its poetry can be beautiful; it can make us shiver with the recognition of things we have always suspected or felt. It can draw us back to times when the earth was new to man, and…

If you want to be a writer, write. Write and write and write. If you stop, start again. Save everything that you write. If…

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How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my…

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“you do get wiser when you live for hundreds of years; but you also have more time to turn out as badly as your…

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I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

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“I don't need to sleep to play. I'm crazy anyway. Being crazier still could only help.”

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“what I felt was inexpressible gratitude for the music, that in this horror there could be something as beautiful as that.”

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I stumble through a carnival of horrors

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Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

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Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life.

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