"We on the roller-coaster of life have long since given up our urgent desire to get off, and, instead, succumb to the ups and downs which are, after long use, known and predictable, and always of short duration, the downs as well as the ups.
The problem that awaits then is not one of despair but one of boredom.
So, how to get through it? Concentrate on the qualitative over the quantitative, good advice in general. Lack of interest in material things is a sign of maturity. Stand on your own truth and stick to your guns and you will not go far wrong in this vale of tears.
To me even in misery there are always such qualitative riches, which is part of the antithetical sweet compulsion of pure existential choice.
In that dynamic space, between the poles of fatalism and freedom, despair and hope, there are whole continents and oceans of beautiful, ugly truth.
We are, as Rimbaud says, "slaves, but not cursing life"."
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