The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate. — Rainer Maria Rilke 0 Forty years spent in wandering in a wilderness like that...
By the use of the language of sorrow I had for the time being obliterated my sorrow - so powerful is the charm of words, which for us reduces to mangaeable entities all the passions that would otherwise madden and destroy us. Severian from The Shadow of the Torturer by Gene Wolfe. ...