"The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom."
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"Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious."
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"The prospect of being pleased tomorrow will never console me for the boredom of today."
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"People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like."
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"Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning."
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"Boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart."
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"And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life."
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"Many people, especially women, never experience boredom because they have never learned to work properly."
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"I have the impression that if he didn't complicate his life so needlessly, he would die of boredom."
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"The merely well-informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth."
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"Boredom lies only with the traveler's limited perception and his failure to explore deeply enough. After a while, I found my perception limited."
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"Martin in particular concluded that man was born to live either in the convulsions of misery, or in the lethargy of boredom."
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"The two real problems in life are boredom and death."
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"There is no lasting happiness outside the prescribed cycle of painful exhaustion and pleasurable regeneration, and whatever throws this cycle out of balance – poverty and misery where exhaustion is followed by wretchedness instead of regeneration, or great riches and an entirely effortless life where boredom takes the place of exhaustion and where the mills of necessity, of consumption and digestion, grind an impotent human body mercilessly and barrenly to death – ruins the elemental happiness that comes from being alive."
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"I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom."
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"I guess that as life is speeded up and our capacity for concentration is being nibbled away at by all the obvious things, that leads us actually to be more susceptible to boredom."
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"I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will."
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"I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back to my own years of stagnancy, and that terrible waiting for life to begin. [p. 68]"
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"Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom."
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"The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. 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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