"Love fed fat soon turns to boredom."
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"Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion."
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"A yawn is a silent shout."
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"When I think about why I would be a writer, why I should continue to be a writer, it seems to me one of the few things you can dowhere you're never bored."
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"Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom."
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"I don't want to do the same thing over and over again."
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"I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full."
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"All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of the boredom it produces."
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"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."
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"To die for the sake of dying - I prefer to die of passion than to die of boredom!"
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"Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities."
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"For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance."
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"A scholar knows no boredom."
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"Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face."
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"I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored."
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"Chronic boredom compensated or uncompensated constitutes one of the major psychopathological phenomena in contemporary technotronic society, although it is only recently that it has found some recognition."
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"Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers and the sense of unaliveness. Among the evils of life, there are few which are as painful as boredom, and consequently every attempt is made to avoid it."
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"Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he recognizes that he is empty, insufficient, dependent, ineffectual. From the depths of his soul now comes at once boredom, gloom, sorrow, chagrin, resentment and despair."
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"It seems to me that all of the evil in life comes from idleness, boredom, and psychic emptiness, but all of that is inevitable when you become accustomed to living at others' expense."
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"Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life."
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