Maria Corelli. Satan's Sorrow (№ 438865)

Anyone who seeks a job with just a head and a pen feels like a kind of social outcast at the beginning of this career. Nobody needs him, everyone despise him. His ambitions are ridiculed, his manuscripts are returned to him unread, and he is less cared for than a convicted murderer in prison. The murderer is at least clothed and fed, the venerable priest visits him, and the jailer sometimes even wants to play cards with him. But a man gifted with original thoughts and capable of expressing them is considered the worst of criminals, and if they could, he would be pushed to death.