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"Nurture a desire to be free from the clock."
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"I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day; how singular an affair he thinks he must omit. When the mathematician would solve a difficult problem, he first frees the equation of all incumbrances, and reduces it to its simplest terms. So simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real. Probe the earth to see where your main roots run."
"For myself I can say that, having had every good thing that money can buy, an experience like another, I could part without a pang with every possession I have. We live in uncertain times and our all may yet be taken from us. With enough plain food to satisfy my small appetite, a room to myself, books from a public library, pens and paper, I should regret nothing."
"The less you need, the more you live."
"I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."
"It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much."
"I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world."
"Don't own so much clutter that you will be relieved to see your house catch fire."
"Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, 'I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist."
"Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or on being."
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"I like working among 'creative clutter'. It gives me a sense of activity and achievement."
"You can escape completely, seeking an alternative life, or you can play the game and go absent without leave. How you do it is up to you."
"We get so used to the gregarious nature of our towns and villages that we forget how crowded our existence has become."
"Writing ink is the magic that allows nothing to become something. It catches the fleeting idea and seeks out the glances of those who wish to see. Even a random ink splat will mean something to someone."
"Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing."
"Stop " Unplug " Escape " Enjoy.' This is the message of the Priory, and the key to enjoying a peaceful and rewarding life."
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