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If I had my life over I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death … without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs. – Inspector Mortimer in Muriel Spark’s Memento Mori

Oliver Burkeman

If I had my life over I should form the habit of nightly composing myself to thoughts of death. I would practice, as it were, the remembrance of death … without an ever-present sense of death, life is insipid. You might as well live on the whites of eggs. – Inspector Mortimer in Muriel Spark’s Memento Mori

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About Oliver Burkeman

Oliver Burkeman (born 1975) is a British author and journalist, formerly writing the weekly column This Column Will Change Your Life for the newspaper The Guardian. In 2021, he published Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, a self-help book on the philosophy and psychology of time management and happiness.