There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.

A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down.

Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time.

In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.

Milan Kundera

Mots clés slowness

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Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.

Alain de Botton

Mots clés perception patience good bad complacency speed ingratitude slowness

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I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.

Rebecca Solnit

Mots clés stillness healing recovery 135 slowness convalescence

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