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I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

Joseph Conrad
Inspirational, Being Yourself, Work
Heart of Darkness ch. 1 (1902)

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

Joseph Conrad
Life, Success, Work
Joseph Conrad, J. H. Stape, Andrew Busza (2004). “Notes on Life and Letters”, p.150, Cambridge University Press

All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean every one of his conceptions to remain forever a private vision, an evanescent reverie.

Joseph Conrad
Work, Mean, Reflection
Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.734, e-artnow

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