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All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

All our Western thought is founded on this repulsive pretence that pain is the proper price of any good thing.

Rebecca West
Pain, Good Things, Western
Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.474, Open Road Media

Only part of us is sane: only part of us loves pleasure and the longer day of happiness, wants to live to our nineties and die in peace, in a house that we built, that shall shelter those who come after us. The other half of us is nearly mad. It prefers the disagreeable to the agreeable, loves pain and its darker night despair, and wants to die in a catastrophe that will set back life to its beginnings and leave nothing of our house save its blackened foundations.

Rebecca West
Pain, Night, Mad
Rebecca West (2010). “Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia”, p.818, Open Road Media

the bad is more easily perceived than the good. A fresh lobster does not give such pleasure to the consumer as a stale one will give him pain.

Rebecca West
Pain, Evil, Giving
Rebecca West (2010). “A Train of Powder”, p.62, Open Road Media

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