From "A Weary Hour," by Thomas Mann

"Here was the depressing truth: the years of need and nothingness, which he had thought of as the painful testing-time, turned out to have been the rich and fruitful ones; and now that a little happiness had fallen to his lot, now that he had ceased to be an intellectual freebooter and occupied a position of civic dignity, with office and honours, wife and children- now he was exhausted, worn out."

A visit

I think I might be back for a while. I always know when I need to stop by for a visit.