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“I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it… I should be loving sculpture! But I have not gone deeply into sculpture. Instead, having been utterly insensitive to sculpture, I fill the time that might have been usefully devoted to sculpture with things like drinking and…” quote by Zadie Smith — Download Open image

““I think Seneca is right: life feels longer the more you engage with it… I should be loving sculpture! But I have not gone deeply into sculpture. Instead, having been utterly insensitive to sculpture, I fill the time that might have been usefully devoted to sculpture with things like drinking and staring into space.””

Zadie Smith

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