“Expect to feel pleasure. Knowledge is sexy. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture.”
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Liberty-Equality-Fraternity (1942)
“If everyone could feel everyone else’s pain, who would torture?”
Source: Parable of the Sower (1993), p. 115
“Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.”
The Saddest Summer of Samuel S (New York: Delacorte Press, 1966) pp. 62-3.
Knowledge http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21394/Knowledge
From the poems written in English
“When I make a statement of facts within my knowledge I expect it to be accepted.”
To Joseph Stalin in 1944, on the fact that there had been no plot between Britain and Germany to invade the Soviet Union. The Grand Alliance, Winston S. Churchill.
The Second World War (1939–1945)
“As the thing more perfect is,
The more it feels of pleasure and of pain.”
Canto VI, lines 107–108 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno
“What makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.”
Variant: No, it's not fair, but what makes earth feel like Hell is our expectation that it should feel like Heaven.
Source: Damned (2011)
