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In a famous quote from Walden, in the essay, “Where I Lived and What I Lived For,” Thoreau exclaims, “Our life is frittered away by detail… simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!”

(To which his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson is said to have replied, “I think one ‘simplicity’ would have done it, Henry.”)

I love Thoreau, and I love that quote for its exuberance, even though I don’t care  much about simplicity and I find most “simplify your life” advice pretty unappealing. Read the rest of this entry »