Certain natures suffer not so much, and people without nerves are happy
 Gustave Flaubert, Bouvard et Pécuchet (1881). copy citation

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Author Gustave Flaubert
Source Bouvard et Pécuchet
Topic suffering nerves
Date 1881
Language English
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“it makes us feel life too much; it gives us, as it were, a proof of malediction to ourselves which weighs upon us; it humiliates us, and that is sad for beings that are sustained solely by their pride. Certain natures suffer not so much, and people without nerves are happy; but of how many things are they not deprived? According as one rises in the scale of being, the nervous faculty increases, that is, the faculty for suffering. Are to suffer and to think the same thing, then?” source