Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.
There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth-yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.
The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
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