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I looked at the piles of plates and cups, and kettles, and bottles and jars, and pies and stoves, an...

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Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-age...

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You can get a lot of work done if you stay with it and are excited and its play instead of work.

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Joseph CampbellThe Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life & Work

Was it the case that colours dimmed as the eye grew elderly? Or was it rather that in youth your exc...

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The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.

She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed he...

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If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs ...

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Never marry a person who is not a friend of your excitement.

Dave and Serge...played the Fiddler's Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was aco...

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Pessimism is a very easy way out when you’re considering what life really is, because pessimism is a...

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I get the same buzz cleaning up the yard as Leo Tolstoy did from scything hay.

He was one of a long line of mimsy and embittered middle-class sensitives who disguised their feeble...

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I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows fr...

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I think it’s glorious to be nervous. Being nervous is great! How often do we get nervous on a daily ...

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Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurre...

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All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches....

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Bertrand RussellThe Conquest of Happiness

Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump...

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I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose...

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The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and s...

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The warm night claimed her. In a moment it was part of her. She walked on the grass, and her shoes w...

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Humanities are the instructors of enchantment.

I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and t...

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David Foster WallaceA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

I was at Harvard with a whole bunch of poets, and that was very rare. They published a lot of books ...

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They sicken of the calm who know the storm.

One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born...

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It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

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Edmund BurkeA Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Without leaps of imagination or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after a...

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