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"Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it."
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"At three in the morning the gaudy paint is off that old whore, the world, and she has no nose and a glass eye. Gaiety becomes hollow and brittle, as in Poe's castle surrounded by the Red Death. Horror is destroyed by boredom. Love is a dream."
"It is not that I was credulous, simply that I belived in all things dark and dangerous. It was part of my young creed that the night was full of ghosts and witches, hungry and flapping and dressed completely in black."
"Throughout the evolution of mankind our very much primordial ancestors had one thing in common, it was ignorance. This ignorance gave birth to fear. Fear of the unknown became a quintessential element of their daily survival. To ace the intensity of the fear, rituals of worship arose."
"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."
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"Whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities."
"When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man."
"The central problem of our age is how to act decisively in the absence of certainty."
"Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning."
"Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement."
"Nothing is so exhausting as indecision and nothing is so futile."
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