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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For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity.
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The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.
They, the holy ones and weakly,
Who the cross of suffering bore,
Folded their pale hands so read more
They, the holy ones and weakly,
Who the cross of suffering bore,
Folded their pale hands so meekly,
Spake with us on earth no more!
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of read more
Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world.
What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha?
What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha?
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
Creative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
