And having heard, or more probably read somewhere, in the days when I thought I would be well advised to educate myself, or amuse myself, or stupefy myself, or kill time, that when a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle. I did my best to go in a circle, hoping in this way to go in a straight line…
Samuel Becket, Molloy ( here )
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If any of us knew what we were doing, or where we are going, then when we think we best know! We do not know today whether we are busy or idle! In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered, that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Experience, 2nd series" (1844, here and many elsewheres )
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