
“When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.”
Source: Tender Is the Night
Source: My Last Sigh
“When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.”
Source: Tender Is the Night
“He thought there was no hope for him. Me? I can't imagine a world without hope.”
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Pain is not the only essence of our God, nor is hope in a future life or a life on this earth, neither joy nor victory. Every religion that holds up to worship one of these primordial aspects of God narrows our hearts and our minds.
The essence of our God is STRUGGLE. Pain, joy, and hope unfold and labor within this struggle, world without end.
Variant: It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Interview in Telecran magazine (25 January 1970)