I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.
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Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.
But then – I was just following him in reverie over mountain and valley – he jumped with both feet onto the middle of my body. I shuddered with wild pain, utterly uncomprehending. Who was it? A child? A gymnast? A daredevil? A suicide? A tempter? An annihilator?
This afternoon the pain occasioned by my loneliness came upon me so piercingly and intensely that I became aware that the strength which I gain through this writing thus spends itself, a strength which I certainly have not intended for this purpose.
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It was like this. The brain could no longer bear the worries and pains that were imposed on it. it said: “I’m giving up; but if there is anyone else here who is interested in preserving the whole, let him assume part of my burden and it will be alright for a bit.
Pain’s a delusion.” Oh, is it?” said the Savage and, picking up a thick hazel switch, strode forward. The man from the The Fordian Science Monitor made a dash for his helicopter.
The bruises hurt him, the cuts were still bleeding; but it was not for pain that he sobbed; it was because he was all alone, because he had been driven out, alone, into this skeleton world of rocks and moonlight.
Pain was a fascinating horror.
At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.
And for all his life it would be kindness and love that made him cry, never pain or persecution, which on the contrary only reinforced his spirit and his resolution.