"A great affliction of all Philistines is that idealities afford them no entertainment, but to escape from boredom they are always in need of realities."
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"Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other."
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"Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite."
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"The gods were bored and so they created man. Adam was bored because he was alone, so Eve was created. Thus boredom entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase in population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored together; them Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the population of the world increased, and the people were bored en masse."
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"It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom."
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"Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom, sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence."
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"As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class, and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it's a bore."
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"A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation."
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"Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world."
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"Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers."
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"Greedhas no satiation point, since its consummation does not fill the inner emptiness, boredom, loneliness, and depression it is meant to overcome."
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"To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish"
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"Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains."
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"Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire."
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"Patience and boredom are closely related. Boredom, a certain kind of boredom, is really impatience. You don't like the way things are, they aren't interesting enough for you, so you deccide- and boredom is a decision-that you are bored."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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"The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way."
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"Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring."
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"The only unhappiness is a life of boredom."
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"A philistine is habitually bored and looks for things that won't bore him. An artist finds things boring, but is never bored."
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