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“People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.”

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Tim Ferriss

Tim Ferriss is an American author, entrepreneur, and podcast host. He gained fame with his book 'The 4-Hour Workweek,' which introduced innovative methods for achieving work-life balance through efficiency and lifestyle design. Ferriss is known for his interest in personal growth, investing, and healthy lifestyles. more

“Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.”

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Author:Andre Gide

“Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.”

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Author:Andre Gide

“Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.”

Men Made Depends Complexes Dependent

Author:Andre Gide

“I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by those among the characters on whom they will have had any effect. I would like those events, in the account they will make of them, to appear slightly distorted; a kind of interest stems, for the reader, from the simple fact that he should need to restore. The story requires his collaboration in order to properly take shape.”

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Author:Andre Gide

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