Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed. There exist only three beings worthy of respect he priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Inspiration comes of working every day.
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