Just as there are Laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed.
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Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.
As Bob Dylan forgot to say, "To live outside the law, you must be lucky."
Terror leaves you when you despair; once you let yourself hope again it returns redoubled.
As the poet tells us: once a king, always a king—but once a night is often sufficient.
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