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• For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Life Lesson, Blessing, Lessons

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• Unless a man has been taught what to do with success after getting it, the achievement of it must inevitably leave him a prey to boredom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Success, Achievement, Taught

  "The Conquest of Happiness".

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• He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

  Dylan Thomas

  Work, Blessing

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• Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

  Karl Kraus

  Literature, Disease, Syphilis

  "Karl Kraus". Book by Harry Zohn, p. 47, 1971.

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• I am convinced that boredom is one of the greatest tortures. If I were to imagine Hell, it would be the place where you were continually bored.

  Erich Fromm

  Blessing, Bores You, Would Be

  Erich Fromm (2014). “The Dogma of Christ: and Other Essays on Religion, Psychology and Culture”, p.104, Open Road Media

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• Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

  Ovid

  Feds, Fats, Turns

  Ovid (1957). “The Loves: The Art of Beauty, The Remedies for Love, and The Art of Love”, p.65, Indiana University Press

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• The best way to be boring is to include everything.

  Voltaire

  Way, Boring, Best Way

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

  Arthur Helps

  Dying Slowly, Faculty, Bored

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• It is not enough to accept boredom, you must embrace it. It is only when you have completely embraced it that you can go beyond it.

  Albert Low

  Enough, Embrace, Accepting

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

  Wallace Stevens

  Scholar, Ardor, Known

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.300, Vintage

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• What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

  George H. W. Bush

  Kindness, Guy, Boring

  "The Square Can Win" by David Paul Kuhn, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 26, 2012.

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• One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.

  Madame de Stael

  Choices, Suffering

  Madame de Stael's letter to Claude Hochet (Summer 1800) as quoted in J. Christopher Herold "Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Stael" (p. 223), 1958.

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• 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

  Blessing, Hollywood, Problem

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• 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.

  Aldous Huxley

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• In marketing you must choose between boredom, shouting and seduction. Which do you want?

  Roy H. Williams

  Blessing, Marketing, Want

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

  Peter Straub

  Blessing, Ifs

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• This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.

  Stendhal

  Blessing, Age, Aberration

  Stendhal, Joan Charles (1949). “Stendhal's The Red and the Black”

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• Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Half, Problem

  Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 4

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• For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

  Gus Van Sant

  Blessing

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• Sooner barbarity than boredom.

  Theophile Gautier

  Blessing, Barbarity

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• I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Blessing, Long, Wanted

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• The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Smile, Blessing, Essence

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• As actors, the thing we have to fight, more than even the business part of making movies, is boredom.

  Linda Fiorentino

  Fighting, Blessing, Actors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous. Then life has a newness, a youth; then life has a flow and freshness. Then life has so many surprises. And when life has so many surprises, boredom never settles in you.

  Rajneesh

  Never Settle, Flow, Youth

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• It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.

  Jack Kevorkian

  Tired, Blessing, Torture

  "Between the dying and the dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's life and the battle to Legalize Euthanasia"‎ by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie, (p. 247), 2006.

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