This is because pain is the experience of life…

This is because pain is the experience of life itself. Positive emotions are the temporary removal of pain; negative emotions the temporary augmentation of it. To numb one's pain is to numb all feeling, all emotion. It is to quietly remove oneself from living.

— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)

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