It bombarded her with instant pleasure, instant pain and instant arousal, fact and fiction all mixed up and blurred together to create an Image. 

To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiously, these elements, like those in physics, are volatile and potentially explosive.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators

In pain you can be more meditative than in pleasure.”

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

The fact is what is seen,what is proven not what is believed