Suffering - bodily suffering - is a great privilege. We lose courage so easily. Nothing is the same after suffering. There is a new shadow on everything, a new depth in our words and in the color of the sky. How foolish it is to try to resist suffering. What insignificant wretches we make ourselves into by not sitting still in the center of the suffering and uncovering our eyes. We have to learn how to go with suffering as with a great tidal wave that will take us toward a new world.
- Wallace Fowlie in a letter to Henry Miller, 8 March 1945
- Wallace Fowlie in a letter to Henry Miller, 8 March 1945
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