Jeanne d’Arc (Historiated initial depicting Joan of Arc from Archives Nationales, Paris, AE II 2490, poss. 15th cent)
“Si je n’y suis [en la grâce de Dieu], Dieu m’y mette; et, si j’y suis, Dieu m’y tienne! Je serais le plus dolente de monde si je savais ne pas être en la grâce de Dieu”
— Jeanne d’Arc
Pero es que no cabe poder gozar sin poder sufrir, y la facultad del goce es la misma que la del dolor. El que no sufre tampoco goza, come no siente calor el que no siente frío.
(But the capacity to enjoy is impossible without the capacity to suffer; and the faculty of enjoyment is one with that of pain. Whosoever does not suffer does not enjoy, just as whosoever is insensible to cold is insensible to heat.)
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936)
Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright and philosopher
Del sentimento trágico de la vida (1913)
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913)


