"Illusion is the first of all pleasures...." - Quote by Voltaire
Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
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“The memory of past troubles is pleasant.[Lat., Jucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum.]”
“But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this assiduously constructed, and yet somewhat dubious hopelessness, in all this poision of unfulfilled desires turned inward, this fever of vacillations, of resolutions adopted for eternity, and of repentances a moment later that you find the very essence of that strange, sharp pleasure.”
“Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place.”