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I understand what Mantus is saying, about accepting the reality. But I don't think you have to conform. You yourself don't have to be sleazy and backstabbing. Just be aware that it can happen, and be firm and strong when it does. Also learn to see things before they hit you. Try and get the better of them when you can. It's possible to survive in the arts and still have some ethics left in you. If not, then you'd just die inside anyway and who wants to be that, for all the riches, fame and success in the world? I sure don't. Don't give up, the key is perseverance and resilience. Surround yourself with good people when you can and things will work out - and at least you'll always have their support.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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