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#idleness

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Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned spring. He was bored with leisure, with work, with himself even more than with others. Meanwhile he blamed his own idleness for it, he ended by being ashamed of it.


Émile Zola


#idleness #zola #life

If you think of something, do it. Plenty of people often think, “I’d like to do this, or that.


Lydia Davis


#depression #idleness #self-sabotage #terror #writer-s-block

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.


Karen Allen


#anything #bad #been #crazy #does

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.


George Borrow


#been #dreary #escape #idleness #itself

Ivanov: I am a bad, pathetic and worthless individual. One needs to be pathetic, too, worn out and drained by drink, like Pasha, to be still fond of me and to respect me. My God, how I despise myself! I so deeply loathe my voice, my walk, my hands, these clothes, my thoughts. Well, isn't that funny, isn't that shocking? Less than a year ago I was healthy and strong, I was cheerful, tireless, passionate, I worked with these very hands, I could speak to move even Philistines to tears, I could cry when I saw grief, I became indignant when I encountered evil. I knew inspiration, I knew the charm and poetry of quiet nights when from dusk to dawn you sit at your desk or indulge you mind with dreams. I believed, I looked into the future as into the eyes of my own mother... And now, my God, I am exhausted, I do not believe, I spend my days and nights in idleness.


Anton Chekhov


#idleness #pathetic #dreams

We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.


Eamon de Valera


#cannot #idleness #inefficiency #waste #we cannot

It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.


Lord Melbourne


#confess #etc #failed #faults #his

I wonder at the idleness of tears.


Lizette Woodworth Reese


#i wonder #idleness #tears #wonder

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.


Jean-Jacques Rousseau


#danger #him #idleness #intercourse #into

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.


Franz Kafka


#crown #idleness #vice #virtues






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