Self-realization is a comedown from salvation, but still gives us something to hope for.
I pursue pleasure, but stingily, suspiciously.
A frog in love would not be enchanted to learn that her beloved had turned into Prince Charming.
Children enjoy inflicting pain until unhappiness teaches them tenderness.
Experience teaches us, but we scarcely know what.
Like an electric tea-kettle, pornography comes to a boil very fast.