And the best way to know who we are is often to find out how others see us.
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
She said she was neither happy nor unhappy, and that was why she couldn't go on. Each person knows the extent of their own suffering, or the total absence of meaning in their lives.
She was doing it because she had nothing to lose, because her life was one of constant, day to day frustration.