To live only to sufferЂ'only t...
To live only to sufferЂ'only to feel the injury of life repeated and enlargedЂ'it seemed to her she was too valuable, too capable, for that. Then she wondered if it were vain and stupid to think so well of herself. When had it even been a guarantee to be valuable? Wasn't all history full of the destruction of precious things? Wasn't it much more probable that if one were fine one would suffer?