Status Updates From Il filo del rasoio

I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling. It whirls its victim to destruction in the highest affirmation of his personality. The object doesn’t matter; it may be worthwhile or it may be worthless. No wine is so intoxicating, no love so shattering, no vice so compelling.

“也许只有那时才会痛彻地领悟到，一生那么多年月就这样荒废了，不仅自取其辱，而且还忍受了多少嫉妒的可怕折磨，自食了多少苦果，将满腔柔情以及精神世界里的所有财富都倾付给了一个卑鄙的荡妇，或是一个傻小子，一个原以为能托付美梦的挂钩，却连一块口香糖都担待不住。”

She’d lived in heaven and when she lost it she couldn’t put up with the common earth of common men, but in despair plunged headlong into hell.