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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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"It is only a step from boredom to disillusionment, which leads naturally to self-pity, which in turn ends in chaos."
"Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself."
"Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love for each other as humans nonetheless seek each other with such intensity, and in this way becomes the source of sociability."
"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."
"My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's."
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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."
"Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility."
"We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark."
"If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget a good deal about sex and find the explanation for everything in egotism."
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