Quote by Leo Tolstoy
Boredom: the desire for desires. - Leo Tolstoy

Boredom: the desire for desires. – Leo Tolstoy

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Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself, it will do more than if you paralyze it by encumbering it with remedies. – Leo Tolstoy

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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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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. – 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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A man can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days. – Attributed to Goethe, by Huebsch

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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom ones self to be bored. – Lady Bloomfield

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Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is. – Thomas Szasz

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One always has time enough, if one will apply it well. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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