"Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart."
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"That which renders life burdensome to us generally arises from the abuse of it."
"Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical."
"Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones."
"Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him."
"If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui."