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- Why should one want to be hurt?
- That's when we learn.

4 seconds sound clip from the Shadowlands movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:26:05.857 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Men while perishing... Sorry. Men before perishing see with unwounded eye, for once a gentle thing fall from the sky

- Embarrassed, huh?

- No, I'm touched.

- Touched?

- Yes.

- Touched? That's good. That's about its level.

- So you may ask, when was I ever in Madrid? The answer is, never.

- Well, personal experience isn't everything.

- I disagree. I think personal experience is everything.

- So reading is a waste of time?

- No, it's not a waste of time, but reading is safe, isn't it? Books aren't about to hurt you.

- Why should one want to be hurt?

- That's when we learn.

- Well, just because something hurts, it doesn't make it more true or more significant.

- No, I guess not.

- I'm not saying that pain is purposeless or even neutral, but to find meaning in pain, there has to be something else.

- Pain is a tool. If you like, pain is God's megaphone...

- Megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

- How embarrassing. You know my writing too well, don't you?

- I have read most of it.

- I guess I knew you pretty well before we met.

- But you'd not had the personal experience.

[...]

Shadowlands Sound Clip

Shadowlands film poster

Sound bites of the best quotes from the 1993 film Shadowlands.

Actors: Anthony Hopkins (C. S. Lewis), Debra Winger (Joy Davidman), Edward Hardwicke (Warren Lewis), Joseph Mazzello (Douglas Gresham)

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