I asked myself, "Is it going to prevent me from getting out of here? Is there a risk of death attached to it? Is it permanently di...sabling? Is it permanently disfiguring? Lastly, is it excruciating?" If it doesn't fit one of those five categories, then it isn't important.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin an...d the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken. They command the world's sympathy. But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak. The anguish of thwarted desire, for example.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »