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My argument with so much of psychoanalysis is the preconception that suffering is a mistake, or a sign of weakness, or a sign even of illness. When in fact, possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people’s suffering.

— Alex Michaelides

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Possibly the greatest truths we know have come out of people’s suffering.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

You can’t love someone if you’re afraid of them.

As far as I can see, love only brings sorrow.

She sometimes felt she had been cursed, as if by some malevolent goddess in a Greek myth, to lose everyone she ever loved.

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