"Say not thou lackest talent. What talent had any of the greatest, but passionate faith in the efficacy of work?"

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What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm.

— Sigmund Freud