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"One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom."
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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."
"The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people."
"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."
"Extreme boredom provides its own antidote."
"It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos."
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