As quoted in Chopin.
Variant translation: I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness. And yet I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
Variant: I wish I could throw off the thoughts that poison my happiness, and yet I love to indulge in them;
Source: Chopin's Letters
“I wish, I wish I were a poisonous bacterium.”
“I wish I could be the most beautiful smile that gives light to your face at my thought alone.”
Original: Vorrei poter essere il sorriso più bello che dona luce al tuo volto al solo mio pensiero.
Source: prevale.net
The Superstition of Divorce (1920)
Context: I do not ask them to assume the worth of my creed or any creed; and I could wish they did not so often ask me to assume the worth of their worthless, poisonous plutocratic modern society. But if it could be shown, as I think it can, that a long historical view and a patient political experience can at last accumulate solid scientific evidence of the vital need of such a vow, then I can conceive no more tremendous tribute than this, to any faith, which made a flaming affirmation from the darkest beginnings, of what the latest enlightenment can only slowly discover in the end.
Speech to the Court-Martial, assembled to pass sentence on his life (November 10, 1798) http://rewinn.com/8043.html
Source: World of the Five Gods series, Paladin of Souls (2003), p. 61
“I wish there was an on & off switch for my brain. I think too fucking much.”
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