No.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.