May 15
Latent in every man is a venom of amazing bitterness, a black resentment; something that curses and loathes life, a feeling of being trapped, of having trusted and been fooled, of being helpless prey to impotent rage, blind surrender, the victim of a savage, ruthless power that gives and takes away, enlists a man, drops him, promises and betrays, and -crowning injury- inflicts on him the humiliation of feeling sorry for himself.
― Paul Valéry, The Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 14: Analects. Translated by Stuart Gilberg. (Princeton University Press, 1970)
