"This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom."
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"The best way to be boring is to include everything."
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"Boredom between two people doesn't come from being together physically. It comes from being apart mentally and spiritually."
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"I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul."
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"Give me boredom. At least I know where I'm going to eat and sleep tonight."
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"To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do."
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"Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom."
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"Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death."
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"The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes."
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"What is boredom? It is when there is simultaneously too much and not enough."
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"If you're afraid to take risks in anything in life, it's just boredom."
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"The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits."
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"The tendency is to blame boredom on the environment. "This town is really dull" or "What a boring speaker." The particular town or speaker is never dull, it is you experiencing the boredom, and you can eliminate it by doing something else with your mind or energy at that moment."
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"The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!"
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"Passion goes, Boredom remains."
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"Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom."
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"The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore."
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"My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom."
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"A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it."
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"People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom."
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