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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.

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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...more

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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...more

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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 ...more