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There are in France some fifty thousand young men of good birth and fairly well off who are encouraged to live a life of complete idleness. They must either cease to exist or must come to see that there can be no happiness, no health even, without regular daily labor of some sort … The need of work is in me.
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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs … of our barbarous ancestors.
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I have come to the conclusion that the bed comprehends our whole life; for we were bom in it, we live in it, and we shall die in it.
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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. To live, in fact, is to die.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
August 5, 1850
Died:
July 6, 1893
(aged 42)
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