and I told myself -- as I've told myself before -- that the body shuts down then the pain gets too bad, that consciousness is temporary, that this will pass. But just like always, I didn't slip away. I was left on the shore with the waves washing over me, unable to drown.
It__ not that I don__ suffer, it__ that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one__ soul and as a permanent scar across one__ view of existence.
Atlas Shrugged
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It__ not that I don__ suffer, it__ that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one__ soul and as a permanent scar across one__ view of existence.
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