There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.
We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Ordinarily pleasure and pain are regarded as different from sensations.
It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
For a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.
A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.
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