Quote by Aldous Huxley
Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. I

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. – Aldous Huxley

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