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“Want and boredom are indeed the twin poles of human life.”
On the Suffering of the World • Arthur Schopenhauer“ I am unaware of anyone ... seriously suggesting ... biological features of the region's peoples that might have contributed. ”
Guns, Germs And Steel • Jared Diamond, Ph.D. (UCLA)“The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde““Let me show in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened:—Behold! human beings living in a underground den, which has a mouth open towards the light and reaching all along the den; here they have been from their childhood, and have their legs and necks chained so that they cannot move, and can only see before them, being prevented by the chains from turning round their heads. Above and behind them a fire is blazing at a distance, and between the fire and the prisoners there is a raised way; and you will see, if you look, a low wall built along the way, like the screen which marionette players have in front of them, over which they show the puppets.””
Republic • Plato“Meditation and water are wedded for ever.”
Moby Dick • Herman Melville