“The excess of pleasure is pain”
“Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”
“Are you amongst the ones who find the path to pleasure from pain, or the path to pain from pleasure?”
“Yet, whether to the glory or to the shame of human nature, in what we call pleasure (with an excess of scorn, perhaps) there are abysses as deep as those of love.”
“It's like pain, this pleasure.”
“Love transforms pleasure into pain.”