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"Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt."
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"The bigger the 'flat' [apartment], the harder one has to work. If the 'flat' is worth six hundred thousand, then he has to work six times as hard. If it is three hundred thousand, he has to work three times over. One simply has to keep on working hard, doesn't he?"
"Though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till."
"A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection."
"But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got."
"Your race against life must yield effort for you to be productive."
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"There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other."
"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."
"Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions."
"The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities."
"Abasement, degradation is simply the manner of life of the man who has refused to be what it is his duty to be."
"The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him."
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