"Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power."
"But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind."
"But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what’s going on in his heart and mind."
... After Many A Summer Dies The Swan, Aldous Huxley
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