痛苦
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
The writer's only responsibility is to his art. He will be completely ruthless if he is a good one. He has a dream. It anguishes him so much he must get rid of it. He has no peace until then.
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered.
Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.