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    Haruki Murakami
    “Being with her I feel a pain, like a frozen knife stuck in my chest. An awful pain, but the funny thing is I'm thankful for it. It's like that frozen pain and my very existence are one.
    The pain is an anchor, mooring me here.
    Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

  • #2
    Oprah Winfrey
    “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
    Oprah Winfrey

  • #3
    Jacqueline Carey
    “Why is there ever this perverse cruelty in humankind, that makes us hurt most those we love best?”
    Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Chosen

  • #4
    William Goldman
    “Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.”
    William Goldman, Four Screenplays with Essays: Marathon Man - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid - The Princess Bride - Misery

  • #5
    David Richo
    “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.”
    David Richo

  • #6
    Stephen Richards
    “It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.”
    Stephen Richards

  • #7
    Karl Kraus
    “The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.”
    Karl Kraus

  • #8
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    “I love the dark hours of my being.
    My mind deepens into them.
    There I can find, as in old letters,
    the days of my life, already lived,
    and held like a legend, and understood.”
    Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

  • #9
    David Markson
    “Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?”
    David Markson, Wittgenstein’s Mistress

  • #10
    H. Beam Piper
    “I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.”
    H. Beam Piper, Fuzzies and Other People



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