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Days begin and end in the dead of night.
They are not shaped long, in the manner of things which lead to
end----arrow, road, man’s life on earth. They are shaped
round, in the manner of things eternal and stable----sun, world, God.
Civilization tries to persuade us we are going towards
something, a distant goal. We have forgotten that our only goal is to
live, to live each and every day, and that if we live each and
every day, our true goal is achieved. All civilized people see the day
beginning at dawn or a little after or a long time after or
whatever time their work begins; this they lengthen according to
their work, during what they call ‘all day long’; and end it
when they close their eyes. It is they who say the days are long.
On the contrary, the days are round.
Jean Giono, ‘Rondeur des Jours’ (1943)
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