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"Extreme boredom provides its own antidote."
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"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."
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"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."
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"The Beatles saved the world from boredom."
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"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."
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"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"
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"Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."
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"The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people."
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"Tedium and boredom are related, but not identical. Tedium comes from a person lacking an ideology to live by; the dulling fear fomented in the soul after confronting the paucity of life."
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"When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom."
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"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."
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"Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another."
Love
"In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances."
Philosophy
"Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly."
Advice
"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."
Philosophy
"The desire of talking of ourselves, and showing those faults we do not mind having seen, makes up a good part of our sincerity."
Desire
"Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world."
Philosophy
"It takes nearly as much ability to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self."
Ability
"Innocence does not find near so much protection as guilt."
Philosophy
"We do not praise others, ordinarily, but in order to be praised ourselves."
Philosophy
"We may sooner be brought to love them that hate us, than them that love us more than we would have them do."
Love
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