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He wanted opponents to test him, not become friends. The friends he did have would curse the hour they met him one day, if they did not already.
“If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it would not seem so wonderful at all.”
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“Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. ”
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“This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.”
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“The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
“I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.”
― Heart of Darkness
― Heart of Darkness
Philip’s 2025 Year in Books
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32 friends
255 books
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48 friends
413 books
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75 friends
59 books
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44 friends
575 books
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127 friends
59 books
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39 friends
43 books
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0 books
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14 friends
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