Through [my friends] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it. . … - Lucy Grealy

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The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

Lucy Grealy

Through [my friends] I discovered what it was to love people. There was an art to it. . . which was not really all that different from the love that is necessary in the making of art. It required the effort of always seeing them for themselves and not as I wished them to be.

Art, Different, Effort, Making, People, Required

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I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever, a constant by which everything else could be measured. I know now that this isn’t so, that most truths are inherently unretainable, that we have to work hard all our lives to remember the most basic things.

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Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people.

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When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without the great burden of isolation, which is what feeling ugly felt like.

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Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain pure and simple.

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I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison.

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