John GreenThat's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt...
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Pain demands to be felt. It can’t be ignored. It has a way of demanding attention. People with a creative soul know that pain means they are living.
If you don’t feel pain, then you aren’t living. You may have been born on this planet, but you can’t remember being alive.
Source: The Fault In Our Stars
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