"It is essential to effort that existence should be hard, painful and uncertain. It is essential that the struggle should endure, for it is by the struggle man develops. If it ceased, and life became perfect — effort would cease; Life would cease.For Life is effort."
Norman Lindsay

January 1, 1970

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Creative Effort (London, 1924), p. 18

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