It is not by genius, it is by suffering, and suffering alone, that one ceases to be a marionette. - Emil Cioran

Since the only things we remember are humiliations and defeats, what is the use of all the rest?

Great joys, why do they bring us sadness? Because there remains from these excesses only a feeling of irrevocable loss and desertion which reaches a high degree of negative intensity. At such moments, instead of a gain, one keenly feels loss. sadness accompanies all those events in which life expends itself. its intensity is equal to its loss. Thus death causes the greatest sadness.

Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!