From the Diary of Albert Camus
I am aware that I shouldn’t judge how people try to escape the 9-to-5 grind. I am aware that a job’s purpose is money, not emotional enrichment. I know!
What I am instead arguing for is something more expansive. The thing you should work hard at is everything . Finding ways to imbue each moment with meaning and purpose and effort is the only path t... See more
What I am instead arguing for is something more expansive. The thing you should work hard at is everything . Finding ways to imbue each moment with meaning and purpose and effort is the only path t... See more
Evan Armstrong • You must devote yourself to the cause of your life.
The modern motivation for practicing frugality might be summed up in one word: escapism. Don’t be a cog in the machine. Escape the nine-to-five grind. Retire early. Hack life. Tune in, save up, and check out. But we need to be running to something, not just from something. Having a void in your life in which you wake up every morning with no struct
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justifies life and its inevitable suffering. Perhaps, if we lived properly, we would be able to tolerate the weight of our own self-consciousness. Perhaps, if we lived properly, we could withstand the knowledge of our own fragility and mortality, without the sense of aggrieved victimhood that produces, first, resentment, then envy, and then the des
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