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(la versión aforística de Rafael Lechowski que no existe en Goodreads)

¿Acaso este librito de apenas 80 páginas es lo que necesitaba para retomar la tesis?

“We must always seek, always endeavor. Nature makes . . . the water to flow down slopes, round obstacles, into empty places, dreaming of the sea that waits it yonder, and which it may at last reach.”

Chapter 4, section IV.

A significant percent of my annotations are “wow.”

“…gag the newspapers!” (p. 95) is prophetic.

“Do something, or do nothing at all… Half-work, which is half-rest, is good neither for rest, nor for work.” (p. 96). See also, Yoda.

The last two and a half pages are beautiful descriptions of working with loved ones. How does it keep getting better?

“Men of pleasure” spend their evenings “dining, smoking, playing cards, talking noisily, frequenting the theaters… going to bed with their minds ‘relaxed.’

Yes, indeed, relaxed; but like a violin with all its strings completely slackened. What a labor next day to tune them all up again!” (p. 91).

I am taking this personally. Crushed.