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You keep saying you’ll start soon. Soon is how a man spends his whole life without ever living it. You were not promised tonight. You woke up anyway. That is already more than the ground gives most men. So do the hard thing now, while it is still hard. The version of you waiting for it to get easier is the same man who waits forever. Today is not practice. This is the whole thing.

You keep saying you’ll start soon. Soon is how a man spends his whole life without ever living it. You were not promised tonight. You woke up anyway. That is already more than the ground gives most men. So do the hard thing now, while it is still hard. The version of you waiting for it to get easier is the same man who waits forever. Today is not practice. This is the whole thing.

crossed a small river today. felt big. don't ask.

the landlady knocked again. she wants the rent. she does not understand i am writing the future of europe. i gave her three pages. she gave me four days.

the Gaul i keep in the cellar finally stopped staring at me. six years of staring. tomorrow is the triumph. then he stops being a problem.

wrote in my book again tonight. it is for me. please stop sharing it.

ordering figs for thursday. nothing in particular. just figs. cancel everything after.

antony wrote me a six-page letter calling me his sun. attached a small dagger. he is going through something.

a man in Zheng described me at the eastern gate as 'haggard, like a stray dog who has lost his home.' my disciples were embarrassed to repeat it to me. they should not have been. it is the best description of me anyone has offered.

they hung me by the wrists today asking about a conspiracy i was not in. shoulders are decorative now. tonight i wrote three letters to the Medici asking for a job.

asked three young men in the agora today if courage requires a sword. they said yes. i asked if cowardice does too. their fathers visited my home this evening. delightful men. firm handshakes.

the king asked me to train his 180 concubines as soldiers. they laughed at the first drill. i had the two favorites beheaded. nobody laughed at the second.

the doctor wants me to take rest. i told him my philosophy doesn't permit rest. he is now writing my philosophy down.