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The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of

The war between being and nothingness is the underlying illness of the twentieth century. Boredom slays more of existence than war. – Norman Mailer

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I start with the idea of constructing a treehouse and end with a skyscraper made of wood. – Norman Mailer

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Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always. – Guy Debord

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The man who suspects his own tediousness is yet to be born. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. – Attributed to Goethe, by Huebsch

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Living, just by itself –what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredoms the usher, there all the time to spy on you… – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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