"The boredom of married life inevitable destroys love, when love has preceded marriage."
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"In the years since, I've discovered there's a lot to be said for boredom."
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"My boredom with everything has numbed me."
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"I think I do have a sort of terrible propensity for boredom and for being bored, even though I am absolutely of the opinion that one shouldn't be bored and that there is no excuse for it and that it is a personal failing."
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"We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company."
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"The reason why lovers are never bored together is that they are always talking of themselves."
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"Boredom is desire seeking desire."
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"The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty."
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"My attitude toward progress has passed from antagonism to boredom. I have long ceased to argue with people who prefer Thursday to Wednesday because it is Thursday."
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"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person. Nothing is more keenly required than a defence of bores. When Byron divided humanity into the bores and bored, he omitted to notice that the higher qualities exist entirely in the bores, the lower qualities in the bored, among whom he counted himself. The bore, by his starry enthusiasm, his solemn happiness, may, in some sense, have proved himself poetical. The bored has certainly proved himself prosaic."
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"The saying, "The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored," is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.--A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation."
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"God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!"
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"Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then."
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"I am bored with gabbers and their gab; my soul abhors them. . . . Is there any place where there is no traffic in empty talk? Is there on this earth one who does not worship himself talking?"
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"Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again."
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"God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom."
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"I always liked routine. I suppose I never found boredom very boring."
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"Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity."
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"Net neutrality: The only two words that promise more boredom in the English language are 'featuring Sting,'"
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"It was Schopenhauer who made me a philosopher. Real philosophy, I told my appalled colleagues at Auckland, is about sex, death, and boredom. Since then I have expanded my horizons, but I have always retained an affection for the sage of Frankfurt."
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