"Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth".

"'Nature is so exact, it hurts exactly as much as it is worth, so in a way one relishes the pain. . . . If it didn’t matter, it wouldn’t matter'".

     Remark of bereaved friend to Julian Barnes, as quoted in Levels of life (London:  Jonathan Cape, 2013), as quoted by Joyce Carol Oates in "When we soar, we can also crash" (on the Web "Julian Barnes and the work of grief"), Times literary supplement no. 5744 (May 8, 2013):  5 (5-6).
     And because sacramental, even more.