"I am ashamed of my emptiness," said the Word to the Work. "I know how poor I am when I see you," said the Work to the Word."

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It's a burden to us even to be human beings-men with our own real body and blood; we are ashamed of it, we think it a disgrace and try to contrive to be some sort of impossible generalized man.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky