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"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?"
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"If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!"
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"Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the source of sociability."
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"Boredom is rage spread thin."
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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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"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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"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."
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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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"Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom."
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"If you are bored it is only because you are a boring person."
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"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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"To be rich nowadays merely means to possess a large number of poor objects."
Poor

"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create."
Society

"We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to the free play of our subjectivity."
Dream

"Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume: the hellish cycle is complete."
Work

"Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can only be of value to minds that are not."
Knowledge

"The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry."
Poetry

"Who wants a world in which the guarantee that we shall not die of starvation entails the risk of dying of boredom?"
Boredom

"Purchasing power is a license to purchase power."
Power

"The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself."
Losing

"Our task is not to rediscover nature but to remake it."
Nature
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