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Mais, j’aurai beau supplier, j’aurai beau me révolter, il n’y aura plus rien pour moi ; je ne serai, désormais, ni heureux, ni malheureux. Je ne peux pas ressusciter. Je vieillirai aussi tranquille que je le suis aujourd’hui dans cette chambre où tant d’êtres ont laissé leur trace, où aucun être n’a laissé la sienne. Cette chambre, on la retrouve à chaque pas. C’est la chambre de tout le monde. On croit qu’elle est fermée, non : elle est ouverte aux quatre vents de l’espace. Elle est perdue au milieu des chambres semblables, comme de la lumière dans le ciel, comme un jour dans les jours, comme moi partout. Moi, moi ! Je ne vois plus maintenant que la pâleur de ma figure, aux orbites profondes, enterrée dans le soir, et ma bouche pleine d’un silence qui doucement, mais sûrement, m’étouffe et m’anéantit. Je me soulève sur mon coude comme sur un moignon d’aile. Je voudrais qu’il m’arrivât quelque chose d’infini !.Henri Barbusse
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It’s hard to safeguard a genuine life course, when love tips over from endearing care into tedium, through laziness of imagination or loss of interest, and the storyline becomes barren and desolate, insipidly dull, turning into a threadbare act with the same trite modus operandi. “The same procedure as every year, James! ” ("Things needing to be changed")Erik Pevernagie
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The tedium of existence and feeling imprisoned in a deplorable job can cause a person to consider the most expedient escape route from suffering including flirting with suicide. Fernando Pessoa wrote in “The Book of Disquiet” of his own feelings of uneasiness and sense of discouragement. “I suffer from life and from other people. I cannot look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten, and lost, with no connection to anything useful or real — only then do I find myself comforted.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind.Kilroy J. Oldster
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The inartistic methods that we use to blunt anxiety and unartful expedients that we resort to in order to escape pain and numb banality reveals what we dread most, the act of suffering from a mortal loss or the debasement that we earn by wallowing in our decadent acts of escapism.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Tedium and boredom are related, but not identical. Tedium comes from a person lacking an ideology to live by; the dulling fear fomented in the soul after confronting the paucity of life.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Once in my room I don't have a goddamn clue what to do.Kelly Thompson
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When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium.Unknown
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It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friendsMilan Kundera
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Tedious as it may appear to some to dwell on the discovery of odds and ends that have, no doubt, been thrown away by the owner as rubbish ... yet it is by the study of such trivial details that Archaeology is mainly dependent for determining the date of earthworks.... Next to coins fragments of pottery afford the most reliable of all evidence ...Augustus Pitt Rivers
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When you feel bored, pump your adrenaline!Toba Beta
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Boredom — the psychological state that we experience whenever we are uninterested in what we are currently doing — is one of the defining traits of humanity. Time is the psychological nemesis of humankind. Tedium, a fundamental angst of humankind, arises from human beings’ ability to perceive time and our attempts to derive meaning from our personal existence.Kilroy J. Oldster
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Soon, what was tedious was everything. 'Beautiful things, they're so tedious! Paintings, they're enough to drive you mad... How right you are, it's so tedious, writing letters! ' In the end it was life itself that she declared to us was a bore, without one quite knowing from where she was taking her term of comparison.Marcel Proust
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Tedium is a dangerous thing, potentially lethal.Nina