Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
“We all have two things in common, no matter who we are: We were born and we are going to die.”
“Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.”