不幸
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.
To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.