"Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you; whatever happens, you've got to look as if you were awfully busy all the time doing something that's terribly exciting -or he'll come along and nibble your brain."

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Source : "Journey to the End of the Night". Book by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1932.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine

#Life Quotes #Boredom Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Whenever it gets too dark, think of the good things you have, the good times you've had. It will help. I promise.”
“For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do the right thing." It's not "innovation," it's "look at the problem from a different angle." Articulating our values as verbs gives us a clear idea - we have a clear idea of how to act in any situation.”
“But this too is true: stories can save us.”
“The happiness which we receive from ourselves is greater than that which we obtain from our surroundings. . . . The world in which a person lives shapes itself chiefly by the way in which he or she looks at it.”
“Words can INSPIRE and words can DESTROY. Choose YOURS well”
“Turn things you've always wanted to do, into things you've done”
“A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit and Ã©lan. Splendid.”
“We have voluntarily agreed to let an invisible government sift the data and high-spot the outstanding issues so that our field of choice shall be narrowed to practical proportions. From our leaders and the media they use to reach the public, we accept the evidence and the demarcation of issues bearing upon public questions; from some ethical teacher, be it a minister, a favorite essayist, or merely prevailing opinion, we accept a standardized code of social conduct to which we conform most of the time.”

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