"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."

Boredom, Idleness, Time, Life, Reflection

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"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."

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"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."

Anatole France, French Novelist

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

William Weld, American Politician

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"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."

Wallace Stevens, American Poet

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"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."

Dustin Hoffman, American Actor

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"Boredom is rage spread thin."

Paul Tillich, German Theologian

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"Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism."

Wendell Phillips, American Activist

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"Tedium and boredom are related, but not identical. Tedium comes from a person lacking an ideology to live by; the dulling fear fomented in the soul after confronting the paucity of life."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself."

John Mortimer, English Novelist

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"Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"Sooner barbarity than boredom."

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"My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."

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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."

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"There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion."

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"There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity."

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"It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail."

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"I cannot conceive how anybody in his right mind should go to a psychoanalyst."

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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

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"The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind."

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"Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much."

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"Revelation can be more perilous than Revolution."

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