But if a person hasn't ever experienced true despair, she grows old never knowing how to evaluate where she is in life; never understanding what joy really is. I'm grateful for it.

Banana Yoshimoto
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Nothing can be more painful than to realize how little you have experienced in life. Nothing can be worse than to discover how much there is that you do not know. For most of us, it's an exciting, life-changing discovery.

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