“The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.”

—  Edmund Burke , book A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)

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