Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.
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We violate the innocence of things in the name of rationality so we can wander about, uninterrupted, in our search for passion and sentiment.
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