“It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.”
“It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure”
“Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.”
“Pleasures are always children, pains always have wrinkles.”
“Are you amongst the ones who find the path to pleasure from pain, or the path to pain from pleasure?”
“...Father made a fetish out of performing tasks the correct way. There was an efficiency and economy of his motions that I always found a pleasure to watch and a pain to mimic.”