A quote from Slowness

If a mind is slowed up ever so little it lives in the individual part of a book rather than in a book as a whole; memory is dulled.”

balance. Be fast when it makes sense to be fast, and be slow when slowness is called for.

The present hastens us forward, at every moment sponging up what preceded it. Only when we wrench ourselves free and perform the ceremony of memory do we grasp the extent of the change.