"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."

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"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."

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"Without much ardor but quite unmistakably, she was writhing her hips as if she were dancing. When he was very close, he saw' her gaping mouth: she was yawning lengthily, insatiably: the great open hole was rocking gently atop die mechanically dancing body. Jean-Marc thought: she's dancing and she's bored.He reached the seawall: down below, on the beach, he saw men with their heads thrown back releasing kites into the air. They were doing it with passion, and Jean-Marc recalled his old theory: there are three kinds of boredom: passive boredom: the girl dancing and yawning; active boredom: kite-lovers; and rebellious boredom: young people burning cars and smashing shop windows."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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"The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities."

Hedy Lamarr, Austrian Actress

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"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always."

Guy Debord, French Writer

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"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."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"Extreme boredom provides its own antidote."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"

Arthur Helps, British Historian

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"The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat."

Tom Kite, American Athlete

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"We are almost always bored by just those whom we must not find boring."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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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."

Manly Hall, Canadian Philosopher

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