“…Boredom [is] a moral failing, the mark of a mind insufficiently stocked to occupy itself.”
“The room marked with a cross is not where the murder was committed, but the one that I occupy.”
“A man must assume the moral burden of his own boredom.”
“Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live.”
“The steady and undissipated attention to one object is a sure mark of a superior genius; as hurry, bustle, and agitation are the never-failing symptoms of a weak and frivolous mind.”
“Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying.”