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Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.

Jacqueline Carey

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Jacqueline Carey
Age: 61
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
Redeems
Reminder
Reminders
Awareness
Pain
Death
Life

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There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation on a theme. So musicians say the greatest sonatas are composed whether or not it is true, I do not know, but of a surety I have seen it emerge in the tapestry of my life.
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A nervous silence loosens tongues
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Wars come and go politics endure.
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Garner knowledge, by any means possible
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Truly, it is in loss that we learn a thing's true value.
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Even a stunted tree reaches for sunlight.
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Pain obliterates everything else. In pain, there is only the eternal present.
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It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.
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What's the point of being a grown-up if you can't indulge the kid inside you every now and then?
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After you, it's all cheap tequila.
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True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
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Oh love and hate are two sides of the same blade
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Some chains are forged for us - those are the hardest to bear.
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It is my observations, though, that happiness limits the amount of suffering one is willing to inflict upon others
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Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.
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Your dreaming self seeks to tell you something your waking ears will not hear
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Beauty is at its most poignant when the cold hand of Death holds poised to wither it imminently.
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When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me
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And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.
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