Life and work (in the right order)

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to
fake one of them, it had better be life

JOSEPH BRODSKY

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After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to
fake one of them, it had better be work

-Me, modifying on the above quote because what use is mastery in work if life has not been mastered.
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Added: Paulo Coelho's Convention of those wounded in Love (modeled after the Geneva Convention, it seems)