Long-protracted suffering is apt to exhaust not only the invalid, but the compassion of others; violent emotions cannot be prolonged endlessly. Beware of Pity
“With my teeth clenched, however, and with your eyes before me I can endure anything: distance, anxiety, worry, letterlessness.” (16 July 1920) Letters To Milena
It is not right to vex ourselves at things, For they care not about it. Book VII
To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. The Picture of Dorian Gray
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