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Blaise Pascal1 quote
All human misfortune comes from this one thing: man's being unable to sit still in a room. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Friedrich Nietzsche1 quote
Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves? — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886William Ralph Inge1 quote
The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians. — William Ralph Inge · 1948