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If only I had the time ...

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"If I stayed home I would never be able to see just how far human stupidity goes." —Françoise Ega, translated by Emma Ramadan, for The New York Review of Books https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/02/10/fill-it-with-reality/?src=longreads #diary #france #labor #longreads

"When we invite people to dinner at our apartment, we ask them to come at seven and all but suggest that they leave by nine. One of us will joke that this is the time I start to drool, but the real reason is that from nine on I can no longer take part in a conversation." —Calvin Tomkins for The New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/22/becoming-a-centenarian

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"A printed diary held out the promise of total control over time, place and the self."

Elena Mary for Aeon: https://aeon.co/essays/victorian-diary-writers-kicked-off-our-age-of-self-optimisation

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