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Boredom: the desire for desires. - Leo Tolstoy

Boredom: the desire for desires. – Leo Tolstoy

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All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Leo Tolstoy

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The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God. – Leo Tolstoy

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God
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Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. – Leo Tolstoy

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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore. – Samuel Butler

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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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Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself. – Gerald Brenan

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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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