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Nothing could be more disgusting than the one impression; nothing more delightful than the other. It all depended on the point of view.
“A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hmn, as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing.
I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.
The weakest of my people does not fear death. It is the Bent One, the lord of your world, who wastes your lives and befouls them with flying from what you know will overtake you in the end.
