Der Sensible muß verbrennen, dieser zarte Nachtfalter. - Elfriede Jelinek

if someone has a fate, then it's a man, if someone gets a fate, then it's a woman.

Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

Rainer [protagonist in the novel], who is reading The Outsider by Camus, says he would like to put the hostility of the world behind him. Once your hope for something better is taken from you, then at last you have the present all in your hand. Then you yourself are reality. Others are extras. When Rainer contemplated san evening he says that evening is melancholy ceasefire where all life has come to and end.