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"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."

"Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat."

"The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting."

"One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me."

"Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself."

"What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ejecting information it has despaired of knowing where to place."
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"We can speak without voice to the trees and the clouds and the waves of the sea. Without words they respond through the rustling of leaves and the moving of clouds and the murmuring of the sea."

"Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone."

"Man's ultimate concern must be expressed symbolically, because symbolic language alone is able to express the ultimate."

"Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone."
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