There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but towards hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him.


William of Baskerville - The Name of the Rose (1980)

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Umberto Eco Quotes

There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses...

There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses...

There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses...

There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses...