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„I tell you, struggle is what is missing in the lives of most young people today. If they think I’m going to support them while they create great works of art, then they’ve missed the point of my work, of my life! In the process of becoming a writer or an artist one has to be willing to starve. Struggle is the most invaluable experience of all. Suffering seems to be the inevitable fate of the creative sensitive types. Poverty, disease, death, unrequited love affairs, and disappointments of every sort fan the flame of the artistic spirit. The greatest works of art were not created by spoiled brats. They were born for the most part out of a sense of despair, and if not despair then just plain hard work. Somewhere along the line the artist learns the art of transformation.“
„We create our fate every day… most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.“
„I thought I should make something – I felt it would be so easy – it would take form under my hands like magic.Then people would see!A strong naked arm – a tanned powerful neck a young woman rests her head on the arching chest.She closes her eyes and listens with open and quivering lips to the words he whispers into her long flowing hair.I should paint that image just as I saw it – but in the blue haze.Those two at that moment, no longer merely themselves, but simply a link in the chain binding generation to generation.People should understand the significance, the power of it. They should remove their hats like they do in church.There should be no more pictures of interiors, of people reading and women knitting.There would be pictures of real people who breathed, suffered, felt, loved.I felt impelled – it would be easy. The flesh would have volume – the colours would be alive.There was an interval. The music stopped. I was a little sad. I remembered how many times I had had similar thoughts – and that once I had finished the painting – they had simply shaken their heads and smiled.Once again I found myself out on the Boulevard des Italiens.“
„No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.“
„One evening I came to have a discussion with my father on the subject how long unbelievers are tormented in Hell. I maintained that no sinner could be so guilty that God would let him suffer longer than a thousand years. Father said that they would suffer for a thousand times a thousand years. We would not give up the argument. I became so irritated… I returned home to make my piece with him. He had gone to bed so I quietly opened his bedroom door. He was on his knees in front of the bed, praying… I closed the door and went to my own room but I could not get to sleep…. eventually I took out my drawing block and started to draw. I drew my father kneeling by his bed, with the light from the bedside lamp casting a yellow glow over his nightshirt. I fetched my paintbox and colored it in. Finally I achieved the right pictorial effect, and I was able to go to bed happy and slept soundly.“
„an Australian…. They have suffered under the yoke of the English…“
„That’s what it’s going to be then, brothers, as I come to the like end of this tale. You have been everywhere with your little droog Alex, suffering with him, and you have viddied some of the most grahzny bratchnies old Bog ever made, all on to your old droog Alex. And all it was was that I was young. But now as I end this story, brothers, I am not young, not no longer, oh no. Alex like groweth up, oh yes.“
„…Daudet differs from the hate-filled Baudelaire and Maupassant in being gentle to fellow-sufferers from the disease of life. Syphilis in him did not engender misanthropy.“
„A white woman tipsy at the club, discoursing sexual needs unsatisfied by an overworked and debilitated husband, was a great topic of scandal in the bazaar. It was a man’s world, and a realistic planter or government officer should have been content with beery sodality and the odd session with a geisha or perempuan jahat. But these men had been to decent schools and were romantic. It was the same in Burma, as Orwell reminds us. The French suffered less.“
„Whether the French were better colonists than the British is an academic question, but at least such Frenchmen as were planting in Malaya (Pierre Boulle, for instance, and Henri Fauconnier) were kept sane by their own culture and some of them (those two, anyway) produced memorable novels based on their Malayan experiences. The British were mostly philistines, and they left behind a heritage of philistinism. Kampung culture is dying, and a metropolitan culture of art galleries and orchestras seems unlikely to arise. What there is, and flourishing too, is a materialist consumerism that is threatened from the north by the communists and from the west by the militant Islam of the ayatollahs. Mr Butcher’s book deals with a race of people who may well be surveyed in terms of anthropological generalities. There was no room for the brilliant or the eccentric. British Malaya was created by courageous and suffering mediocrities. The building of Singapore in 1819 was a rather different affair.“
„So much is happening on earth that cannot be fixed or explained, but it can be felt and suffered. I think a Christian is one who, along with Jesus, agrees to feel, to suffer the pain of the world.“
„We do not handle suffering. Suffering handles us.“
„Warriors should suffer their pain silently.“
„A passion for the infinite is daily presented as a sign of moral distinction, when in fact it can only occur in disturbed minds which accord the status of a norm to the very disturbance from which they are suffering.“
„Perhaps, if prematurely we dismiss ourselves from this world, all may even have to be suffered through again — the premature birth may not contribute to the production of another being, which must be begun again from the beginning.“
„Suffering, sad “female humanity!” What are these feelings which they are taught to consider as disgraceful, to deny to themselves? What form do the Chinese feet assume when denied their proper development? If the young girls of the “higher classes,” who never commit a false step, whose justly earned reputations were never sullied even by the stain which the fruit of mere “knowledge of good and evil” leaves behind, were to speak, and say what are their thoughts employed upon, their thoughts, which alone are free, what would they say?“
„True it is that we can only create a heaven for ourselves and others “by the merits of Another,” since it is only by working in accordance with God’s Laws that we can do anything. But there is nothing at all in these prayers as if God’s anger had to be bought off, as if He had to be bribed into giving us heaven by sufferings merely “to satisfy God’s justice.”“
„The offering is not to buy anything by suffering, but — If only the suppliant can do anything for God’s children!“
„The way to live with God is to live with Ideas — not merely to think about ideals, but to do and suffer for them. Those who have to work on men and women must above all things have their Spiritual Ideal, their purpose, ever present. The “mystical ” state is the essence of common sense.“
„Give us back our suffering, we cry to Heaven in our hearts — suffering rather than indifferentism; for out of nothing comes nothing. But out of suffering may come the cure. Better have pain than paralysis!“
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