To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
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The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.
To each his suff'rings; all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan;
The tender for another's pain,
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To each his suff'rings; all are men,
Condemn'd alike to groan;
The tender for another's pain,
Th' unfeeling for his own.
Yet ah! why should they know their fate,
Since sorrow never comes too late,
And happiness too swiftly flies?
Thought would destroy their paradise.
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have read more
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure read more
Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged or planned.
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by Death.
Knowledge by suffering entereth,
And life is perfected by Death.
We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep
for.
[Lat., Levia perpessi sumus
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We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep
for.
[Lat., Levia perpessi sumus
Si flenda patimur.]
