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Everything Is F*cked (Audiobook) Mark Manson

Notus & Friends

CHAPTER

The Power of Pain

Human pain is like a game of whack-a-mole. The faster you hit them, the faster they come back. No religion will ever make you feel blissful and peaceful all the time. True freedom doesn't really exist because we all must sacrifice some autonomy for stability. There are no solutions. Only stop-gap measures. Only incremental improvements. And it's time we stop running from that and instead embrace it. This is our fucked up world, and we're the messed up ones in it. It always has been and always will be.

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