Tediousness
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And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean, when boredom seems the very stuff of life.
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal
Boredom: the desire for desires
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore
The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out
Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other
We always get bored with those whom we bore
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