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“Painting bores me like everything else. Unfortunately, painting is one of the activities - it is bound up in the series of activities - that seems to change almost nothing in life, the same habits are always recurring.”

Seems Painting Habit Activity Series Bounds Boredom Bores Recurring

Author:Rene Magritte

“In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.”

Ifs Knows World Teach Mankind Habit Resources Faults Driven Employment Miserable Boredom Gambling Disposition Hostility Amusing Gaming Ennui

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“I finally overcame my phobia, and now I approach flying with a sort of studied boredom - a learned habit, thanks to my learn-to-fly-calmly training - but like all former flying phobics, I retain a weird and feverish fascination with aviation news, especially bad news.”

Habit Approach News Training Flying Thanks Former Boredom Aviation Fascination Bad News Phobia Learn To Fly

Author:Susan Orlean

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”

Pain Happiness Artist Evil Interesting Trouble Stupid Habit Terrible Intellectual Boredom Considering Refusal Bad Habits Treason Banality Pendants

Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

“The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.”

Life Habit Truth Is Bored Boredom Existential Plague Cultivating Funny Boredom

Book:Nobel Prize Library

Source: Nobel Prize Library

“Beneath a mask of selfish tranquility nothing exists except bitterness and boredom. I am one of those whom suffering has made empty and frivolous: each night in my dreams I pull the scab off a wound; each day, vacuous and habit-ridden, I help it re-form.”

Made Dream Night Suffering Habit Empty Selfish Wounds Reform Boredom Each Day Mask Bitterness Tranquility Scabs Vacuous

Author:Cyril Connolly