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Nikslibrary nonfiction gold star: Disguised as a self-help productivity book, this instead speaks to the core of how we have perversely adopted time as a resource, something to extract and maximize, and how we can grapple with purpose in light of our own finitude.
"Before [the industrial revolution], time was just the medium in which life unfolded, the stuff that life was made of. Afterward, once "time" and "life" had been separated in most people's minds, time became a thing that you used."
"We cannot get anything out of life. There is no outside we could take things to."
"We're all in the position of the medieval stonemasons, adding a few bricks to a cathedral who's completion we know we'll never see. The cathedral's still worth building all the same."
"Before [the industrial revolution], time was just the medium in which life unfolded, the stuff that life was made of. Afterward, once "time" and "life" had been separated in most people's minds, time became a thing that you used."
"We cannot get anything out of life. There is no outside we could take things to."
"We're all in the position of the medieval stonemasons, adding a few bricks to a cathedral who's completion we know we'll never see. The cathedral's still worth building all the same."
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