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There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life__ meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.
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There is no use being alive if one must work. The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life__ meaning - that event which I may not yet have found, but on whose path I seek myself - is not earned by work.

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