"Whoever commits to paper what he suffers..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
Whoever commits to paper what he suffers becomes a melancholy author: but he becomes a serious author when he tells us what he suffered and why he now reposes in joy.
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“These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.”
“The object of convalescence ought to be to turn our attention to life: at other times, simply to our tasks!”
“The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear.”
More on Writing
“Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.”
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More on Suffering
“Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.”
“Man must suffer to be wise.”
“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.”