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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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"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."
"Miss Searle had always considered boredom an intellectual defeat."
"The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting."
"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."
"Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself."
"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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"In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption."
"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create."
"People who talk about revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life, without understanding what is subversive about love and what is positive in the refusal of constraints, such people have a corpse in their mouth."
"The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself."
"As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life."
"Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own."
"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."
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