In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.Simone Weil
Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.F. Scott Fitzgerald
Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.Denis Diderot
The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems start on the third day, and continues for the rest of your life.Tom Stoppard