If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the miseries of boredom.
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Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffe...
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Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to mo...
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Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
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One simple test of the claim that the pleasure in the world outweighs the pain…is to compare the feelings of an animal that is devouring another with ...
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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
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Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
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If life — the craving for which is the very essence of our being — were possessed of any positive intrinsic value, there would be no such thing as bor...
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Boredom is certainly not an evil to be taken lightly: it will ultimately etch lines of true despair onto a face. It makes beings with as little love f...
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What keeps all living things busy and in motion is the striving to exist. But when existence is secured, they do not know what to do: that is why the ...
