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"If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all." — John Cage
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William Shakespeare

"For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, action nor utterance, nor the power of speech, to stir men's blood. I only speak right on. I tell you that which you yourselves do know." — William Shakespeare
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Voltaire

"All kinds are good except the kind that bores you." — Voltaire
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Blaise Pascal

"Man finds nothing so intolerable as to be in a state of complete rest, without passions, without occupation, without diversion, without effort. Then he feels his nullity, loneliness, inadequacy, dependence, helplessness, emptiness." — Blaise Pascal
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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"A yawn is a silent shout." — Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Robert E. Lee

"The devil's name is dullness." — Robert E. Lee
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"The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance." — Malcolm Muggeridge
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"Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges." — Author Unknown
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George Burns

"I spent a year in that town, one Sunday." — George Burns
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"My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. I can dispense then with artificial stimulants. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation." — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Samuel Johnson

"Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both." — Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson

"Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return." — Samuel Johnson
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Bertrand Russell

"Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom." — Bertrand Russell
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Wayne Dyer

"The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way." — Wayne Dyer
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Benjamin Disraeli

"His shortcoming is his long staying." — Benjamin Disraeli
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Dylan Thomas

"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest." — Dylan Thomas
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"There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men." — Jules Goncourt
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"Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face." — Charlotte Whitton
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

"Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain." — Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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"The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored." — Jean Bruyere
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"Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves flash and yearn, and moreover my mother told me as a boy (repeatedly) ''Ever to confess you're bored means you have no inner Resources.'' I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored." — John Berryman
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