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"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always."
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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."
"When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom."
"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."
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"There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter."
"Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal."
"Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea."
"In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation."
"Young people everywhere have been allowed to choose between love and a garbage disposal unit. Everywhere they have chosen the garbage disposal unit."
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