I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.
Sorrow also fulfills Desire. Example: the Soaps.
Forget what hurt you but never forget what it thaught you.
Attaining even mediocrity is often a struggle.
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived.
The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.