“Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.”
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In youth the days are short and the years are long. In old age the years are short and day's long.
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.
Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
