Christopher Hitchens  - Quotes

 What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? (Just to give you an idea, Proust's reply was 'To be separated from Mama.') I think that the lowest depth of misery ought to be distinguished from the highest pitch of anguish. In the lower depths come enforced idleness, sexual boredom, and/or impotence. At the highest pitch, the death of a friend or even the fear of the death of a child. 

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Albert Camus  - Quotes

 Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre. 

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Robert Louis Stevenson  - Quotes

 Extreme busyness is a symptom of deficient vitality, and a faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity. 

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Samuel Johnson  - Quotes

 The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning. 

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Jane Lindskold  - Quotes

 For his part, Blind Seer had no difficulty accepting idleness. A wolf proverb stated:  

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Fran  - Quotes

 Of all our faults, the one that we excuse most easily is idleness. 

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