Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People find life entirely too time-consuming.
The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
If work and leisure are soon to be subordinated to this one utopian principle - absolute busyness - then utopia and melancholy will come to coincide: an age without conflict will dawn, perpetually busy - and without consciousness.
The last occasions when the timetable of our lives would be interrupted for many years to come.
Live life to the fullest, for the future is scarce.
One must measure and conduct one's life on its own terms.
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.
It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.
Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.
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