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The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but find some love in the blood.

The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but find some love in the blood.

Leslie Jamison
Pain, Yield, Blood
Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.167, Granta Books

Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.

Leslie Jamison
Pain, Too Much, Failing
Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.21, Granta Books

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