The work in process becomes the poet’s fate and determines his psychic development. It is not Goethe who creates Faust, but Faust which creates Goethe.

—Carl Jung

If you haven’t written a book that will change your reader, it’s because you didn’t write something that changed yourself.

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Next week: Émile Zola on gift-work balance.

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