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"No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusionsabout himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality. It is only when ourappointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception."
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"The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function."
"A true writer is someone the gods have called to the task."
"No man engaged in a work he does not like can preserve many saving illusionsabout himself. The distaste, the absence of glamour, extend from the occupation to the personality. It is only when ourappointed activities seem by a lucky accident to obey the particular earnestness of our temperament that we can taste the comfort of complete self-deception."
"Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is."
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"Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin."
"It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth."
"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird."
"A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space."
"You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty."
"There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it."
"They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience."
"Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line."
"A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love."
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