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Oliver Burkeman: Four Thousand Weeks (Hardcover, 2021, Farrar, Straus and Giroux) 4 stars

The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you …

A life spent focused on achieving security with respect to time, when in fact such security is unattainable, can only ever end up feeling provisional - as if the point of your having been born still lies in the future, just over the horizon, and your life can begin as soon as you've put it [...] 'into proper working order'.

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Chapter 14: The Human Disease