"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
Today's Question
Among the many tasks you perform, is there anything for which you felt self-satisfied with your own approach or attitude, regardless of the final outcome?
A novelist on the 'Sublimity of Process'
Flaubert was a strict stylist who would deliberate for days over a single sentence. He loved the fierce process more than the success of the result.
He wrote to a friend, 'Success should be a consequence and not a goal.' He believed if one writes only for success, the sentence becomes shallow; only by immersing in the act of writing does a great work follow.