“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.”

― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

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“I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really...”

― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

“It wasn't money or love that I was looking for. I had a heightened sense of awareness, was set in my ways, impractical and a visionary to boot.”

― Bob Dylan, Chronicles

“it's stupid to do work that machines could do just as well.”

― Boris Vian, Froth on the Daydream

“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going...”

― Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Sufferings of the World

“I seldom fling children from towers to improve their health.”

― George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job?”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“So that, in effect, religion, which should most distinguish us from beasts, and ought most peculiarly to elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts themselves.”

― John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

“A gentleman may love like a lunatic, but not like a beast.”

― François de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims

“My past is everything I failed to be.”

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Ye who suffer because ye love, love yet more. To die of love, is to live in it.”

― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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