The World Motivation
What I loved, aside from the work of making, was the self-forgetfulness of the labour, the immersion in a kind of trance of attention that was as unlike daily thinking as dream logic is to waking.
“What I loved, aside from the work of making, was the self-forgetfulness of the labour, the immersion in a kind of trance of attention that was as unlike daily thinking as dream logic is to waking.”
— Olivia Laing · Time
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“What I loved, aside from the work of making, was the self-forgetfulness of the labour, the immersion in a kind of trance of attention that was as unlike daily thinking as dream logic is to waking.”
“She missed the sense of time as something serious and diminishing, she didn't like living in the permanent present of the id.”
“One fact of life is that time never comes back.”
“Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.”
“Time is the wisest counselor of all.”
“Now, five years is nothing in a man's life except when he is very young and very old...”
“For time may be a river,”
“Immortality is not endless life. It is endless memory.”