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"The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."
Books
"Silence is the wit of fools."
Fool
"That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future."
Events
"Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue."
Virtue
"History books that contain no lies are extremely dull."
History
"Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom."
Boredom
"Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one."
Acceptance
"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."
Life
"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."
Love
"One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me."
Man
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"Even boredom has its crises."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"If an earth with no other creatures but only humans would be possible, it would be unbearably boring!"
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Personal Development
"Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."
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Personal Development
"My own business always bores me to death, I prefer other people's."
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Personal Development
"He finds himself bored by the shenanigans of highly spirited young men. Their concerns reside somewhere between balder and dash."
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Personal Development
"Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind."
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Personal Development
"The boring thing about being interesting is that you bore boring people."
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Personal Development
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