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“Where there is still shame, there may yet be virtue.”
Alexander Starritt, We Germans

Oliver Burkeman
“John Maynard Keynes saw the truth at the bottom of all this, which is that our fixation on what he called “purposiveness”—on using time well for future purposes, or on “personal productivity,” he might have said, had he been writing today—is ultimately motivated by the desire not to die. “The ‘purposive’ man,” Keynes wrote, “is always trying to secure a spurious and delusive immortality for his actions by pushing his interests in them forward into time. He does not love his cat, but his cat’s kittens; nor in truth the kittens, but only the kittens’ kittens, and so on forward forever to the end of cat-dom. For”
Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

Oliver Burkeman
“mortality makes it impossible to ignore the absurdity of living solely for the future.”
Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

“Nothing in us stays constant. Our minds are not an archive; everything is always being re-digested by the present. Memories fade; my scars get paler every year; grass grows back endlessly over scorched earth.”
Alexander Starritt, We Germans

Oliver Burkeman
“It’s alarming to face the prospect that you might never truly feel as though you know what you’re doing, in work, marriage, parenting, or anything else. But it’s liberating, too, because it removes a central reason for feeling self-conscious or inhibited about your performance in those domains in the present moment: if the feeling of total authority is never going to arrive, you might as well not wait any longer to give such activities your all—to put bold plans into practice, to stop erring on the side of caution. It is even more liberating to reflect that everyone else is in the same boat, whether they’re aware of it or not.”
Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals

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