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• There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ... Time, self-pity, apathy, bitterness, and exhaustion can take the Christmas out of the child, but you cannot take the child out of Christmas.

  Erma Bombeck

  Christmas, Morning, Children

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.119, Fawcett

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• Knowledge of Rome must be physical, sweated into the system, worked up into the brain through the thinning shoe-leather. ... When it comes to knowing, the senses are more honest than the intelligence. Nothing is more real than the first wall you lean up against sobbing with exhaustion. Rome no more than beheld (that is, taken in through the eyes only) could still be a masterpiece in cardboard - the eye I suppose being of all the organs the most easily infatuated and then jaded and so tricked. Seeing is pleasure, but not knowledge.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Travel, Wall, Real

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• The writings are often written in a kind of exhaustion or delirium, I try very hard not to censor myself, to be as honest and vulnerable as possible, as one would in a diary. As a child I used to write my diaries backwards in cursive. No one else could understand them. I think it trained me to be bold and admit feelings that I might feel otherwise scared to write down.

  Jill Magid

  Children, Writing, Thinking

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Technology, Data, Omnipotence

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool memories”, Verso

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• A chronic lack of pleasure, of any enjoyable, rewarding or stimulating experiences, produces a slow, gradual, day-by-day erosion of man's emotional vitality, which he may ignore or repress, but which is recorded by the relentless computer of his subconscious mechanism that registers an ebbing flow, then a trickle, then a few last drops of fuel--until the day when his inner motor stops and he wonders desperately why he has no desire to go on, unable to find any definable cause of his hopeless, chronic sense of exhaustion.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Emotional, Erosion

  Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.103, Penguin

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• For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Years, Mammals

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• The roles of art, morality, religion, political faith, science itself are not to repair organic exhaustion nor to provide sound functioning of the organs. All this supraphysical life is built and expanded not because of the demands of the cosmic environment but because of the demands of the social environment.

  Emile Durkheim

  Art, Political, Sound

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

  Penelope Cruz

  Mind, Body, Too Much

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• It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.

  Naima Adedapo

  Believe, Splits, Able

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• The biggest problem has been exhaustion. I've spent about 6 of the last 14 years completely bedridden.

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Years, Lasts, Problem

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• The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to study; its extremes of squalor and of splendor do not stimulate, but sadden me; certain phases of its society I profoundly value, but would sacrifice them to the heaven of country quiet, if I had to choose between.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Country, Sleep, Sacrifice

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• What I collect? Interesting jobs. Always to my thrill and excitement, but ultimately to my exhaustion, I collect interesting jobs. If an interesting job comes along, I take it; that's why I do so many things. I'm lucky to be able to.

  John Hodgman

  Jobs, Interesting, Lucky

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Even though modern life in many ways is nothing short of exhausting, we need to take responsibility for what is necessary to combat the stress and exhaustion of modern life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Stress, Responsibility, Needs

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am.

  Amy Poehler

  Tired, Talking, Tired Of Life

  Amy Poehler (2014). “Yes Please”, p.135, Pan Macmillan

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• To think of abstraction as an end in itself is undoubtedly letting oneself be led into a cul-de-sac and can only lead to exhaustion and impotence.

  Jacob Epstein

  Thinking, Ends, Impotence

  Jacob Epstein, (2013). “Let There Be Sculpture”, p.55, Read Books Ltd

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• We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Science, Land, Yield

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• The so-called new Russian man is characterized mainly by his complete exhaustion. You may find yourself wondering if he has the strength to enjoy his new-found freedom. He is like a long-distance runner who, on reaching the finishing line, is incapable even of raising his hands in a gesture of victory.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Distance, Men, Hands

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• If the behaviour of babies and small children is any guide, we emerge into the world with our tendencies to imbalance already well entrenched. In our playpens and high chairs, we are rarely far from displaying either hysterical happiness or savage disappointment, love or rage, mania or exhaustion--and, despite the growth of a more temperate exterior in adulthood, we seldom succeed in laying claim to lasting equilibrium, traversing our lives like stubbornly listing ships on choppy seas.

  Alain de Botton

  Baby, Disappointment, Children

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• I think the popular concept of the artist is a person who has this great passion and enthusiasm and super emotion. He just throws himself into this great masterpiece and collapses from exhaustion when it's finished. It's really not that way at all.

  Richard Estes

  Passion, Artist, Thinking

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• As long as you believe what you’re doing is meaningful, you can cut through fear and exhaustion and take the next step.

  Arlene Blum

  Meaningful, Believe, Cutting

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• You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.

  Anne Lamott

  Baby, Fall, Love You

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• Too much reality can be a dazzle, a surfeit;Too close immediacy an exhaustion

  Theodore Roethke

  Reality, Dazzle, Too Much

  Theodore Roethke (1975). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, Anchor Books

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• Momentum was part of the exhilaration and the exhaustion of the twentieth century which Coward decoded for the British but borrowed wholesale from the Americans.

  John Lahr

  Coward, Momentum, Exhilaration

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• I look back on tremendous efforts & exhaustion & dismal looking out of a tent door on to a dismal world of snow and vanishing hopes - & yet, & yet, & yet there have been a good many things to see the other side.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Doors, Snow, Effort

  George Leigh Mallory's diary entry (May 27, 1924) as quoted in James Ramsey Ullman "Kingdom of Adventure: Everest" (p. 124), 1947.

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• There's no narcotic like exhaustion.

  Octavia Butler

  Narcotics

  Octavia E. Butler (2012). “Parable of the Sower”, p.226, Open Road Media

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