“Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.”
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work.
A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.
