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Isn’t ‘not to be bored’ one of the principal goals of life?

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Before marriage she thought hserself in love; but the happiness that should have followed this love not having come, she must, she thought, have been ...more

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But her life was as cold as an attic facing north; and boredom, like a silent spider, was weaving its web in the shadows, in every corner of her heart...more

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Before her marriage she had thought that she had love within her grasp; but since the happiness which she had expected this love to bring her hadn’t c...more

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She was as sated with him as he was tired of her. Emma had rediscovered in adultery all the banality of marriage.

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He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became dr...more