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"It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos."

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

"Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the source of sociability."

"Boredom " the psychological state that we experience whenever we are uninterested in what we are currently doing " is one of the defining traits of humanity. Time is the psychological nemesis of humankind. Tedium, a fundamental angst of humankind, arises from human beings' ability to perceive time and our attempts to derive meaning from our personal existence."

"My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's."
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"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."

"He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."

"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."

"Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt."

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