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Boredom

Mirko • 23 cards

slow living, work life

You will be civilized on the day you can spend a long period doing nothing, learning nothing, and improving nothing, without feeling the slightest amount of guilt.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb • The Bed of Procrustes

Idleism

Not to be confused with “idealism.” Not everything needs to be productive. Life happens in the idle margins, margins that are shrinking by the day.

David Pennington • 36 cards

Leisure without study is death — a tomb for the living person. — Seneca

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“‘perfecting the art of idleness’.”

— The Case of the Lonely Accountant (The Finder Mysteries) by Simon Mason

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work

Grace Brogan • 2 cards

Gli unici oziosi sono quelli che dedicano il proprio tempo alla saggezza e sono gli unici che sanno vivere; non sono infatti solo attenti custodi della loro esistenza, ma vi aggiungono ogni altra età: tutti gli anni che hanno alle spalle sono un loro acquisto.

Seneca • La brevità della vita (Italian Edition)

“Nothing is more alien to the present age than idleness,” writes the philosopher John Gray. He adds: “How can there be play in a time when nothing has meaning unless it leads to something else?” In such an era, it’s virtually guaranteed that truly stopping to rest—as opposed to training for a 10K, or heading off on a meditation retreat with the