"Condition de l'homme: inconstance, ennui, inquie tude. Man's condition. Inconstancy, boredom, anxiety."
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"Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing."
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"Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath."
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"The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom."
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"unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag, of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag. Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan."
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"Norman Mailer described the desire to be cool as a "decision to encourage the psychopath in oneself, to explore that domain of experience where security is boredom and therefore sickness and one exists in the present, in that enormous present which is without past or future, memory or planned intention."
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"Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities."
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"If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom."
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"Speak on, but be not over-tedious."
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"With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars."
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"I'm bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days later."
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"I wish to speak with all respect of persons, but sometimes I must pinch myself to keep awake, and preserve the due decorum. They melt so fast into each other, that they are like grass and trees, and it needs an effort to treat them as individuals."
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"Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything."
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"I’ve seen excitement, and I’ve seen boredom. And boredom was best."
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"In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind."
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"Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure."
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"Many people try to avoid pressure, yet the absence of any tension or pressure usually creates a sense of boredom and the lackluster experience of life that so many people complain about."
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"If you want to cure boredom, be curious. If you're curious, nothing is a chore; it's automatic - you want to study. Cultivate curiosity, and life becomes an unending study of joy."
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"it is only on posters and in advertisement pages that Americans have those chubby cheeks, expanding smiles, smooth looks, and faces flushed with well-being. In fact, almost all are at odds with themselves; drink offers a remedy for this inner malady of which boredom is the most usual sign: as drinking is accepted by society, it does not appear as a sign of their [Americans'] inability to adapt themselves; it is rather the adapted form of inadaptability."
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"A man has got to keep his extrication. The important thing is not to get bogged down In what he has to do to earn a living."
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