... he or she is deprived from it, but that moment when they get their hands on it creates a feeling of sublimity through the knowledge that they will be able to escape the pain and move into sublimity. The achievement of finding the drug is almost better than the drug itself because the individual can imagine what lies ahead at least for ... is more powerful than beauty because pain is more entrapping than pleasure on the mind. Pain has the power to engulf one's being in an expansive darkness that he cannot escape easily, but the escape in itself leads to sublimity along with the knowledge...

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