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"One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom."
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"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."
"It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture."
"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."
"The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people."
"Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat."
"When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom."
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