Sublime

he kept seeking the “key” for making Barb better. It was a slow process, but Gil began to see that he could not do anything to change Barb,

‘You must be sure of two things: you must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honourable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well, and not be always

Il transposait sans difficultés à son propre cas la notation suivante : « En tant que technicien spécialisé, formé dans une académie réputée, Pavel aurait dû apprécier l'existence. Malgré cela il était malheureux, toujours à la recherche d'une raison de vivre. »

You live up to your own expectations,

Yes, evening will find itself in me, without me.

Being good, he discovered, was no good. No one loved you for being good, except God, presumably, and even there he was beginning to have his doubts.

Álvaro de Campos.

The monolithic uncertainty of my future was deadening; everywhere I turned, the shadow of death obscured the meaning of any action. I remember the moment when my overwhelming unease yielded, when that seemingly impassable sea of uncertainty parted. I woke up in pain, facing another day—no project beyond breakfast seemed tenable. I can’t go on, I th