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The pain wants to eat me away. I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.
The pain wants to eat me away. I wish I could have one without the other, but that's the problem with being alive. You don't usually get to choose the measure of suffering or the degree of joy you have.
Approximate author period: c. 1978 AD · modern
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- Ally Condie
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- Approximate author period: c. 1978 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1978; activity date not established; Wikidata Q437370, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q437370 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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