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.

“There is, in fact, a joy that is immanent to desire as though desire were filled by itself and its contemplations, a joy that implies no lack or impossibility and is not measured by pleasure.”

“Pleasure is in no way something that can be attained only by a detour through suffering;
it is something that must be delayed as long as possible because it interrupts
the continuous process of positive desire.”