'"O my God! to live for so long a time in one idea, one hope - to consecrate one's life to it with a devotion the most absolute and an abnegation the most complete - to renounce for it love, friendship and family - to feed its flame with a holocaust of all human sentiment - to sacrifice to it one's genius - to put at its service the power of an inflexible will - and then at the moment of realization to be prevented from accomplishing it by some miserable obstacle! Yesterday an absurd tempest - this morning some trifling incident which I cannot imagine [...] no-one can foresee the thousand stupid resistances of things to ideas - of matter to spirit."'
from Four Fates by Theophile Gautier (Chapter XIX)
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