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"Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself."
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"It is not the simple statement of facts that ushers in freedom; it is the constant repetition of them that has this liberating effect. Tolerance is the result not of enlightenment, but of boredom."
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"It's precisely in those moments when I don't know what to do, boredom drives one to try a host of possibilities to either get somewhere or not get anywhere."
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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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"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."
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"I know when I'm working I seldom get into trouble. My educated guess is that boredom has caused most of the problems with Hollywood celebrities."
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"Writer's block is the greatest side effect of boredom."
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"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."
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"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."
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"The corporate outings were fun, but after doing them for 25 years, they got to be a little old hat."
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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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"People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me."
People
"It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite."
Desire
"Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."
Change
"Purity of heart is to will one thing."
Heart
"Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further."
Faith
"The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo."
Life
"At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference."
Society
"I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this."
Man
"A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him."
Happiness
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
Society
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