1. On the Sublime and Beautiful
The first is that sublimity can arise when one goes through pain in order to exacerbate beauty into the overwhelming emotion that he or she has been striving for, and the second comes in the form of positive pain, which is a thought process in which the individual enjoys thinking about the pain that was suffered but is not being suffered currently because pain is a more powerful emotion than pleasure, so one can find pleasure in not having pain. ... The second definition in which thought about pain brings sublimity can be expressed through the great tragedies because one takes pleasure watch...
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