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A Stoic’s Key to Living with Presence: Seneca on the Existential Calculus of Saving, Spending, and Wasting Time

A Stoic’s Key to Living with Presence: Seneca on the Existential Calculus of Saving, Spending, and Wasting Time

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“Lay hold of to-day’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon to-morrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by. Nothing… is ours, except time.” “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her abiding insistence on choosing presence over …

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