The pain, I can assure you, will be exquisite.

Clive Barker
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The pain, I can assure you, will be exquisite" is a curious thing to say. Pain, by its very nature, is something that we should not be able to tell. It should be impossible to predict just how painful the experience of a particular feeling will be. However, all of us have experienced pain and we know that it can often be intense and difficult to bear.

It's certainly true that the pain we endure during recovery from an illness or injury can be intense and difficult to bear. But it is also true that the pain we experience as a result of our own actions can be intense and difficult to bear as well. The speaker is implying that he or she knows what he's talking about when it comes to experiencing pain.

Source: The Forbidden

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