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Leisure is the prerequisite of every free thought, every free activity. And this is why only the few are capable of it, since the many, when they have gained time, only kill it.

— Friedrich Georg Jünger The Failure of Technology (1956)

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This growing consumption is a sign not of abundance but of poverty; it is bound up with worry, want, and toil.

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No doubt the wise thing to do is to eat the apple itself rather than swallow the vitamins which may be extracted from it.

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The difference is fundamental, for in the first instance I am acting like a sick person, in the second like a healthy one.

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