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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: 60
Born: 1964
Born: January 1
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Highland Park
Illinois
Life
Redeems
Reminder
Reminders
Awareness
Pain
Death

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I wish sometimes that the gods would either choose better, or make their wishes clearer
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This is the secret that none dares tell who fights for a cause. Dying, we are all alike.
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Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?
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True friendship must be akin to romance, I think. only without all the anguish and anxiety.
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There are those who are awkward in the face of sorrow, fearing to say the wrong thing to them, I say, there is no wrong in comfort, ever. A kind word, a consoling arm ... these things are ever welcome.
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If you will not die for us, you cannot ask us to die for you.
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When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity upon me
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That which yields is not always weak.
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Love child! What else? You will find it and lose it, again and again. And with each finding and each loss, you will become more than before. What you make of it is yours to choose.
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