إمّا أن تكون ذكرى النعيم الماضي عذابَ اليوم، وإمّا أن تكون الآلامُ مصدرها نشواتٌ كان يمكن أن تقع.

“Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been.”Edgar Allan Poe — EDGAR ALLAN POE: 72 Short Stories and Novels & 80+ Poems; Including Essays, Letters & Biography (Illustrated): Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Raven, Tamerlane, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-tale Heart, Berenice, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, Eureka… (2017)