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 You [the writer] must squeeze out of yourself every

sensation, every thought, every image—mercilessly,

without reserve and without remorse; you must

search the darkest corners of your heart, the most

remote recesses of your brain. . . .

And you must

do it so that at the end of your day's work you should

feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every

thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart,

with the notion that there is nothing—nothing left

in you.

Joseph Conrad