"Work is experienced as discipline — the background of which is ascesis — even though it also gives pleasure. One is allowed to become "depersonalize… - Susan Sontag

"Work is experienced as discipline — the background of which is ascesis — even though it also gives pleasure. One is allowed to become "depersonalized" in work, to forget the self (to lose contact with its most intimate feelings and needs) — indeed all that is necessary if one is to give oneself fully to the work."