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I think suffering gives meaning to life, just as cold gives meaning to warmth. There's a quote that's often wrongly attributed to Dostoevsky, "the darker the night, the brighter the stars," and I think there's a profound truth. Until it's truly been tested, your strength of character is hypothetical. You don't truly know it, and thus don't truly know yourself. That's why C. S. Lewis said that courage is not merely a virtue, but the spine of all virtues. In terms of myself, my own suffering hasn't so much stemmed from life as from myself. It's been self-imposed. I put myself through the fire, often, and often too much. But in this sense, I've been lucky 1 reply
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