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... [f]or a sensation to be felt as pain is for it to be pain.
(Saul Kripke (b. 1940), U.S. professor of philosophy (Princeton University). Identity and Individuation, ed. Milton K. Munitz, "Identity and Necessity," p. 163, New York University Press (1971).
Emphasis in the original.)
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Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism," Fortnightly Review.)
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Anesthesia: wounds without pain. Neurasthenia: pain without wounds.
(Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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It is the pain, it is the pain, endures.
(William Empson (1906-1984), British poet, critic. It is the pain, it is the pain, endures (l. 1). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).)
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The music, yearning like a God in pain,
She scarcely heard:
(John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. The Eve of St. Agnes (l. 56-57). . .
The Complete Poems [John Keats]. John Barnard, ed. (3d ed., 1988) Penguin.)
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the pomp
Of pain swells like the Indies, or a plum
(Robert Penn Warren (1905-1989), U.S. poet. Pursuit (l. 13-14). . .
Modern American Poetry. Louis Untermeyer, ed. (8th rev. ed., 1962) Harcourt, Brace and Company.)
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Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
(Alexander Pope (1688-1744), British poet. An Essay on Man (Fr. Epistle I). . .
Poetical Works [Alexander Pope]. Herbert Davis, ed. (1978; repr. 1990) Oxford University Press.)
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The labor we delight in physics pain.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Macbeth, in Macbeth, act 2, sc. 3, l. 50.
"Physics pain" means relieves pain, or the trouble we have taken.)
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Pain makes hens and poets cackle.
(Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), German philosopher, classical scholar, critic of culture. Friedrich Nietzsche, Sämtliche Werke: Kritische Studienausgabe, vol. 4, p. 362, eds. Giorgio Colli and Mazzino Montinari, Berlin, de Gruyter (1980); Thus Spoke Zarathustra, p. 291, trans. by Walter Kaufmann, New York, Viking Press (1966). Zarathustra, in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Fourth and Last Part, "On the Higher Man," section 12 (issued privately in 1885, publication in 1892).)
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I walked, with other souls in pain,
(Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish author. The Ballad of Reading Gaol (l. 19). . .
Oxford Book of Narrative Verse, The. Iona Opie and Peter Opie, eds. (1983) Oxford University Press.)
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