Finally, the images of the suffering must work on us incessantly if they are to stir up a high level of emotion. The passion produced in us by others' sufferings is a state of coercion from which we rush to free ourselves and it is all too easy for the illusion so indispensable for compassion to disappear. For this reason, our minds must be forcibly fettered to these images and robbed of the freedom of tearing themselves away from the illusion prematurely.
Varition, in and out of suffering, is imperative for combating against the effects of habit. The spontenaity of suffering keeps our minds sharp and in continual urge to act. O' how easily we move from empathy to apathy.
The great secret of the art of tragedy consists precisely in the skillful management of this conflict [suffering and without suffering] there the secret is revealed in its most brilliant light.
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