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THE IMPORTANCE OF DAWDLING THEORY This theory holds that there is nothing more valuable than time to waste. The most interesting things are the ones tucked in the empty spaces to be discovered when dawdling, loitering, lying in bed. It’s
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“Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.”
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
― Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
“The great and only possible dignity of man lies in his power deliberately to choose certain moral values by which to live as steadfastly as if he, too, like a character in a play, were immured against the corrupting rush of time. Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence. As far as we know, as far as there exists any kind of empiric evidence, there is no way to beat the beat the game of being against non-being, in which non-being is the predestined victor on realistic levels.”
― Where I Live: Selected Essays
― Where I Live: Selected Essays
“The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.”
― Paris Spleen
― Paris Spleen
“Here’s to nothing,” he said. “That’s when anything can happen.”
― The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores
― The Tenth Island: Finding Joy, Beauty, and Unexpected Love in the Azores
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