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Henry E. Gilpin, 1981

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When I was young, I had to choose between the life of being and the life of doing. And I leapt at the latter like a trout to a fly. But each deed you do, each act, binds you to itself and to its consequences, and makes you act again and yet again. Then very seldom do you come upon a space, a time like this, between act and act, when you may stop and simply be.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

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Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to Joseph and Marie Ginoux. January 1890. The Illustrated Provence Letters of van Gogh, selected and edited by Martin Bailey

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“An entire life spent reading would have fulfilled my every desire; I already knew that at the age of seven. The texture of the world is painful, inadequate; unalterable, or so it seems to me. Really, I believe that an entire life spent reading would have suited me best. Such a life has not been granted me…”

— Michel Houellebecq, Whatever