African Spir Quotes
It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.
Quotes to Explore
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture.
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Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning
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But you know who you are when you're on your own out there in all that emptiness. There's no past, no holding on to the scraps that are all you've got left. Everything is that minute, or maybe tomorrow, not yesterday.
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I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.
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I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.
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My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.
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The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.
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The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
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Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
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You are never tired of painting, because you have to set down not what you know already, but what you have just discovered.
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The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.
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Much is forgiven anyone who relieves the desperate boredom of the working press.
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I am aware that my musical style is not necessarily to the taste of all of you. I've got a heightened 'boredom factor' if music gets too redundant.
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Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.
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Those who every morning plan the transactions of the day and follow out that plan carry a thread that will guide them through the labyrinth of the most busy life. The orderly arrangement of their time is like a ray of light which darts itself through all their occupations. But where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incidents, chaos will soon reign.
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Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
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Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.
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All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn.
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A rock star does not age!
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I like to use a bit of chaos when I shoot. I think it may be something from the way I shot my first film - I was very scared, of course, and I prepared everything, I wanted to make sure that the characters did the right thing at the right time on the storyboard. But then I realised that in life, there is so much more than what you can predict or write in advance, that when you shoot the story, it's good to leave some gaps where you lose control. I think this combination of chaos and organisation gives a kind of quality.
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It is to our lack of proper content ("notre manque de contenu propre:;», Fr.), of our inner emptiness that we need occupations and distractions, otherwise ("faute de quoi", Fr.) we experience boredom, which is nothing elses than the feeling of unease that take hold of us when our spirit is not absorbed by the mirages of life.
