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“We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences. We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful. Ease makes less of an impression on us than struggle. We could have been ourselves without our delights, but not without the misfortunes that drive our search for meaning. 'Therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities,' St. Paul wrote in Second Corinthians, 'for when I am weak, then I am strong.'”

“And the more I see Pleasures about me, so much more I feel Torment within me.”

Feels Pleasure Torment Paradise Lost Book 9

Book:Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

Source: Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books

“That's all very well as an abstract moral principle, Avril, a coffee-table theoretical construct, but there's no denying the sheer gratuitous pleasure to be derived from seeing members of the ruling class in pain and torment.”

Wells Pain Pleasure Moral Class Principles Seeing Members Tables Coffee Abstract Sheer Constructs Torment Ruling Theoretical Moral Principles

Book:The Acid House

Source: The Acid House

“The man whose bosom neither riches nor luxury nor grandeur can render happy may, with a book in his hand, forget all his torments under the friendly shade of every tree; and experience pleasures as infinite as they are varied, as pure as they are lasting, as lively as they are unfading, and as compatible with every public duty as they are contributory to private happiness.”

Men May Book Hands Reading Forget Pleasure Tree He Man Duty Pure Infinite Riches Luxury Friendly Lasting Shade Torment Bosoms Grandeur Lively Compatible

Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann