“It is a sweet, albeit most painful, feeling
To know we are regretted.”
The Improvisatrice (1824)
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“In order to stay clear of pain, we must know and know why we feel best while having pain.”
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“There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.”
Ibid., p. 111
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Ah, não há saudades mais dolorosas do que as das coisas que nunca foram!

Source: On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (1938), p. 290

Source: Alexander’s Feast http://www.bartleby.com/40/265.html (1697), l. 57–60.