A Quote by Ari Aster
Sometimes you want pain to be acknowledged and not whitewashed - or erased by some exceptionalist point of view.
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My pain is usually caused by some sort of attack on my ego. So usually, pain is an indication of something that, eventually, I'm going to want to transcend. But sometimes pain is just pain that you sit through. I find it can have a really exhilarating effect.
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