"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."

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"It is the unknown that excites the ardor of scholars, who, in the known alone, would shrivel up with boredom."

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

Peter Straub, American Writer

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"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."

Milan Kundera, Czechoslovakian Writer

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"The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Boredom, Truth, Regret, Wisdom, Interest

"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."

Hedy Lamarr, Austrian Actress

Boredom, Hollywood, Problems, Trouble

"There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever."

Viggo Mortensen, American Actor

Boredom,

"Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always."

Guy Debord, French Writer

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"The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself."

John Mortimer, English Novelist

Boredom, Validity, Writing

"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."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Boredom, Time, Humanity, Existence

"Extreme boredom provides its own antidote."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Boredom, Emotion, Opposition, Reaction

"Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?"

Arthur Helps, British Historian

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"Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom."

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"Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic."

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"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."

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"The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it."

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"The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence."

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"The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire."

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"If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution."

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"One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be."

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"To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind."

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"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."

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