"<p>All the world can want from you is a bargain and a half-solution. What matters is what you have contracted with yourself and your character. There is no bargain in this contract.</p> <p>Life takes from a character a more cruel interest than a usurer. You have to pay for everything, for independence, for pleasure, for physical health, but most of all you have to pay for the contract you have made with your character and your work. You can never say to this slave-owner, 'My head hurts.'" Or, "I'm in the mood for something else." It is easier for the slave rowing in a galley than for the one who has contracted his character to work.</p>"