"Reason can no longer restrain the man who is tempted by the demon of ambition, and he plunges headlong into what impetuous instinct suggests: he no longer chooses his position in life, instead it is determined by chance and illusion."
— Demon

January 1, 1970

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Karl Marx, Reflections of a Young Man on The Choice of a Profession, written between August 10 and 16, 1835; first published in Archiv für die Geschichte des Sozialismus und der Arbeiterbewegung, 1925