Ludwig van Beethoven
October 6, 1802 · Bonn · Vienna · While he was hiding the fact that he was going deaf
Oh! ye who think or declare me to be hostile, morose, and misanthropical, how unjust you are, and how little you know the secret cause of what appears thus to you!The "Heiligenstadt Testament," written to his two brothers · in place of the original: the English translation by Lady Wallace (1866)
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Nakahara Chuya 中原中也
1930 · Showa Japan
On my sorrow, soiled as it is, a light snow falls again today. Across my sorrow, soiled as it is, even the wind blows again today.
汚れつちまつた悲しみに
今日も小雪の降りかかる
汚れつちまつた悲しみに
今日も風さへ吹きすぎる"On My Soiled Sorrow..." (Yogorechimatta kanashimi ni), in Goat Songs
Oscar Wilde
1897 · Ireland · Britain
Where there is sorrow there is holy ground. Some day people will realise what that means. They will know nothing of life till they do
De Profundis, the letter written in Reading Gaol
Miyazawa Kenji 宮沢賢治
November 3, 1931 · Iwate, Japan
Unbeaten by the rain, unbeaten by the wind, unbeaten by snow or the heat of summer, with a sturdy body, without greed, never angry, always quietly smiling
雨ニモマケズ
風ニモマケズ
雪ニモ夏ノ暑サニモマケヌ
丈夫ナカラダヲモチ
慾ハナク
決シテ瞋ラズ
イツモシヅカニワラッテヰル"Unbeaten by the Rain" (Ame ni mo makezu), written in a notebook
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