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Yes, it is necessary to suffer, even in vain, so as not to live in vain.

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People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But, then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer, not to love is to suffer, to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love, to be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy, therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness — I hope you're getting this down.

If, then, we are to be fully human and fully alive and aware, it seems that we must be willing to suffer for our pleasures.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

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It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

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