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“Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.”
On Duties • Marcus Tullius Cicero“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies?”
Don Quixote • Miguel De Cervantes“No one knows how greatness comes to a man. It may lie in his blackness, sleeping, or it may lance into him like those driven fiery particles from outer space. These things, however, are known about greatness: need gives it life and puts it in action; it never comes without pain; it leaves a man changed, chastened, and exalted at the same time--he can never return to simplicity.”
Sweet Thursday • John Steinbeck““Perhaps man has a hundred senses."”
Seagull • Anton Chekhov““Back then the hunger artist captured the attention of the entire city.” ”
A Hunger Artist • Franz Kafka