“The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.”
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“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
“Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow, do you understand my pain? Are you willing to risk it all or is your love in vain?”
“It is a known fact that pain and pleasure are the two most basic elements of life. But the secret is to simplify that fact.”
“Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.”
“I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.”