'settling down in misfortune and making it my heaven'

LEFRANC

I did what I could, out of a yearning for misfortune. 

GREEN EYES

You don't know the first thing about misfortune if you think you can choose it. I didn't want mine. It fell on my shoulders and clung to me. I tried everything to shake it off. I struggled, I boxed, I danced, I even sang, and, odd as it may seem, I refused it at first. It was only when I saw that everything was irremediable that I quieted down. I've only just accepted it. It had to be total. 

LEFRANC

It's thanks to me. . . . 

GREEN EYES

I don't give a damn! It's only now that I'm really settling down in misfortune and making it my heaven. And you, you try to get there by fraud. . . . 

LEFRANC

I'm stronger than you. My misfortune comes from something deeper. It comes from myself.

—Jean Genet, Deathwatch (1949; trans. B. Frechtman)