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Boredom: the desire for desires. - Leo Tolstoy

Boredom: the desire for desires. – Leo Tolstoy

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The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. – Leo Tolstoy

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Patriotism
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A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. – Leo Tolstoy

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Boredom is a sickness the cure for which is work; pleasure is only a palliative. – Le Duc de Lévis, Mémoires

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Is boredom anything less than the sense of ones faculties slowly dying? – John Berger

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

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Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. – Evelyn Waugh

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