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"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."
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"The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people."

"Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom."
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