Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you.

I have been constantly betrayed and deceived all my life.

But what was a body? Dust, dung, urine, itches. It was the light within which was important, and it was not significant if that light endured after death, or if the soul was blinded eternally in the endless night of the suspired flesh.

My literary success meant nothing to me

Despair is sometimes the great energizer of the mind, though sometimes its flowering may be sterile.

Giving a phenomenon a label does not explain it.