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“No, the contrary of acedia is not the spirit of work in the sense of the work of every day, of earning one’s living; it is man’s happy and cheerful affirmation of his own being, his acquiescence in the world and in God—which is to say love. Love that certainly brings a particular freshness and readiness to work along with it, but that no one with the least experience could conceivably confuse with the tense activity of the fanatical “worker”.”
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
“There is nothing like a dream to create the future.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“Our effort has been to regain some space for true leisure, to bring back a fundamentally right possession of leisure, “active leisure”.”
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
“Leisure is only possible when we are at one with ourselves. We tend to overwork as a means of self-escape, as a way of trying to justify our existence.”
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
“The vacancy left by absence of worship is filled by mere killing of time and by boredom, which is directly related to inability to enjoy leisure; for one can only be bored if the spiritual power to be leisurely has been lost. There is an entry in Baudelaire... "One must work, if not from taste then at least from despair. For, to reduce everything to a single truth: work is less boring than pleasure.”
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
― Leisure: The Basis of Culture
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