Antoine de Saint-Exupery. The citadel (№ 199652)

They rot illusive happiness to consume ready. There is no happy without the work and sweat of creative suffering. Refusing to waste themselves and receiving food from other people's hands, fine foods and exquisite reading other people's poems and not wanting to write their own, they wear out the oasis, not prolonging his life, wear out the chants they got. They tied themselves to the trough in the barn and became domestic animals. They prepared themselves to slavery.