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POEMS BY ISAAC ROSENBERG<br />
same with all people, no matter what their condition)<br />
to be terribly tragic. You are the victim<br />
of a horrible conspiracy ; everything is unfair.<br />
The gods have either forgotten you or made you<br />
a sort of scapegoat to bear all the punishment.<br />
I believe, however hard one's lot is, one ought to<br />
try and accommodate oneself to the conditions ;<br />
and except in a case of purely physical pain, I<br />
think it can be done. Why not make the very<br />
utmost of our lives ? . . . Tni a practical economist<br />
in this respect.<br />
I endeavour to waste nothing.<br />
. . . Waste words! Not to talk is to waste<br />
words. . . .<br />
"To most people life is a musical instrument<br />
on which they are unable to play : but in the<br />
musician's hands it becomes a living thing. . . .<br />
The artist can see beauty everywhere, anywhere.<br />
. .<br />
."<br />
In what is perhaps an earlier letter he excuses<br />
his neglect of serious reading <strong>by</strong> his lack of<br />
leisure and the worries that make him crave for<br />
amusing books as an antidote<br />
" You mustn't forget the circumstances I have<br />
been brought up in, the little education I have<br />
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