Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will en — Bertrand Russell
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Boredom is essentially a thwarted desire for events, not necessarily pleasant ones, but just occurrences such as will enable the victim of ennui to know one day from another. The opposite of boredom, in a word, is not pleasure, but excitement.

— Bertrand Russell
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