The Intellectual Haughtiness of the Sufferer

One of the most refined forms of disguise is Epicureism, along with a certain ostentatious boldness of taste. Profound suffering makes noble, it separates. The highest instinct for purity places him who is affected with it in the most extraordinary and dangerous isolation as a saint. Any kind of cognizance of an indescribable excess in the joy of the bath impels the soul out of night into the morning.