#idleness

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness. ↗

— Herman Melville

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Idleness is the parent of psychology. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Remove idleness from the world and soon the arts of Cupid would perish. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

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I suppose the secret of his success is in his tremendous idleness which almost approaches the supernatural. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

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Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

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The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

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Boredom was at the root of Lazare's unhappiness, an oppressive, unremitting boredom, exuding from everything like the muddy water of a poisoned spring. He was bored with leisure, with work, with himself even more than with others. Meanwhile he blamed his own idleness for it, he ended by being ashamed of it. ↗

— Émile Zola

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