"…. Query: How contrive not to waste..." - Quote by Albert Camus
…. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.
More by Albert Camus
“There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night.”
“Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me.”
“Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?”
More on Time
“I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk at the eleventh hour of four o'clock in the afternoon, too late to redeem the day, when the shades of night were already beginning to be mingled with the daylight, have felt as if I had committed some sin to be atoned for.”
“Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.”
“Am I the only one who measures time using songs? “Oh it only took me 4 songs to get here! that’s not to long!”
More on Awareness
“Most of us make unconscious choices in the words that we use; we sleep-walk through the maze of possibilities available to us.”
“Pay attention to the gap - the gap between two thoughts, the brief, silent space between words in a conversation, between the notes of a piano or flute, or the gap between the in-breath and the out-breath. When you pay attention to those gaps, awareness of 'something' becomes - just awareness. The formless dimension of pure conciousness arises from within you and replaces identification with form.”
“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.”