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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."
"Boredom " the psychological state that we experience whenever we are uninterested in what we are currently doing " is one of the defining traits of humanity. Time is the psychological nemesis of humankind. Tedium, a fundamental angst of humankind, arises from human beings' ability to perceive time and our attempts to derive meaning from our personal existence."
"When we hold back out of laziness, that is when we tie ourselves into knots of boredom."
"The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people."
"The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them."
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"Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out."
"Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own."
"Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live."
"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."
"In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create."
"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."
"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."
"As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way of life."
"In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom through consumption."
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