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The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

The two real problems in life are boredom and death.

Saul Bellow
Real, Two, Boredom

Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose boredom, to command stasis, to combine this stasis with anguish. The real tedium, deep tedium, is seasoned with terror and with death.

Saul Bellow
Real, Boredom, Social
Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

Saul Bellow
Blessing, Boredom, Conviction
Saul Bellow (2012). “The Adventures of Augie March”, p.646, Penguin UK

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