"Leisure is only possible when we are at……" — Josef Pieper

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• In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
• To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death,… — Aristotle
• I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
• The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason… — Billie Joe Armstrong
• Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact… — Antonin Artaud
• The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in… — Marcus Aurelius
• Because we can't escape our ancient hunger to live close to nature, we encircle the house with lawns and gardens,… — Diane Ackerman
• In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed...… — David Bailey
• When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. — Julian Barnes
• We don't create a fantasy world to escape reality. We create it to be able to stay. — Lynda Barry
• There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it. — Roland Barthes
• Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. — Henry Ward Beecher

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