The greatest results can be achieved when one knows how to sufficiently increase the pleasure gained from the sources of mental and intellectual work. Fate can then do little to harm you. The satisfaction of this kind, such as the artist’s joy in creating and giving form to his imaginary visions and that of the researcher in solving problems and grasping the truth, has a special quality that we will certainly one day be able to define in metapsychological terms. At the moment we can only say figuratively that they appear to be “more refined and more sophisticated” to us, but their intensity is
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