The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.


Letter to Mademoiselle Leroyer de Chantepie [September 4, 1858]


The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.