‘Life has meaning and we grown-ups know what it is’ is the universal lie that everyone is supposed to believe.
“Speed can be fun, productive and powerful, and we would be poorer without it. What the world needs, and what the slow movement offers, is a middle path, a recipe for marrying la dolce vita with the dynamism of the information age. The secret is balance: instead of doing everything faster, do everything at the right speed. Sometimes fast. Sometimes slow. Sometimes in between.”
― In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed
― In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed
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