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How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.


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Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.



How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and with that one, is what we are doing.



Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.

Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.



So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.

So it is that a writer writes many books. In each book, he intended several urgent and vivid points, many of which he sacrificed as the book's form hardened.



The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.

The feeling that the work is magnificent, and the feeling that it is abominable, are both mosquitoes to be repelled, ignored, or killed, but not indulged.



The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one’s own most intimate sensitivity.

The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one’s own most intimate sensitivity.



Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper.

Now the thing is no longer a vision: it is paper.



In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering his body.

In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said "It is the trade entering his body.





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They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.

They broke it to me gently. The manager came up to me before a game and told me they didn't allow visitors in the clubhouse.



Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.

Philosophy is as far separated from impiety as religion is from fanaticism.



A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.



To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.

To begin with oneself but not to end with onself. To start from oneself but not to aim at oneself.



When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.

When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.



If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.

If one wishes to become rich they must appear rich.



I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror and know I took everyone on.

I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror and know I took everyone on.



I cleaned toilets and shined shoes.

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