“Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.”
“My prize, my pleasure and pain, my endless desire. I've never know anyone like you.”
“Somewhere in the pain there is pleasure, and that is the most awful part, perhaps. (170)”
“Maybe a certain degree of deprivation was necessary to the experience of pleasure, just as suffering was an integral part of joy.”
“How strange this mass of ancient treasuresMementoes of past pains and pleasures;These volumes, clasped with costly stone,With print all faded, gilding gone”
“There’s still a part of her that’s waiting for the twist, the moment when all of this pleasure will jackknife into pain.”