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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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"There's a rebirth that goes on with us continuously as human beings. I don't understand, personally, how you can be bored. I can understand how you can be depressed, but I just don't understand boredom."
"Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the Broadway prices, especially today, I'm going to walk out and not come back and pay that price again."
"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."
"Without much ardor but quite unmistakably, she was writhing her hips as if she were dancing. When he was very close, he saw' her gaping mouth: she was yawning lengthily, insatiably: the great open hole was rocking gently atop die mechanically dancing body. Jean-Marc thought: she's dancing and she's bored.He reached the seawall: down below, on the beach, he saw men with their heads thrown back releasing kites into the air. They were doing it with passion, and Jean-Marc recalled his old theory: there are three kinds of boredom: passive boredom: the girl dancing and yawning; active boredom: kite-lovers; and rebellious boredom: young people burning cars and smashing shop windows."
"My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's."
"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."
"The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people."
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"The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize myself."
"Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out."
"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."
"As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life."
"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."
"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."
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