#idleness

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. ↗

— Herman Melville

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Idleness is the parent of psychology. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political. ↗

— Iain Pears

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If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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