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Vocation
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Only those who decline to scramble up the career ladder are interesting as human beings. Nothing is more boring than a man with a career.
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― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
― The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
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He prayed for the recovery of that inward privacy which the purpose of his vigil demanded that he seek: a clean parchment of the spirit whereon the words of a summons might be written in his solitude——if that other Immensurable Loneliness which was God stretched forth Its hand to touch his own tiny human loneliness and to mark his vocation there.
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