#idleness

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues. ↗

— Franz Kafka

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The dandy turns idleness into an art form. The couch potato, into a snack form. But the supreme idler is the couch dandy: his art is superficial flavoring. ↗

— Bauvard

#dandyism #idleness #snacking #art

He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. ↗

— Albert Camus

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Inventory: "Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

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Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our life. ↗

— Tom Hodgkinson

#living #life

It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

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It is rather hard to be accused of shiftlessness and idleness when the accuser closes the avenue of labour and industrial pursuits to us. ↗

— George H. White

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It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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