Adam Phillips
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Boredom is a developmental achievement insofar as it is an irritable state and a recurrent sense of emptiness out of which one's real desire can crystallize.
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Boredom is akin to free-floating attention. It is both waiting for something and looking for something, in which hope is being secretly negotiated.
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Boredom protects the individual, makes tolerable for him the impossible experience of waiting for something without knowing what it could be.
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Horse racing is a bad investment. To own a racehorse is the equivalent of burning a yacht on the front lawn every year.
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Psychoanalysis is a kind of conversation worth having only if it makes our lives more interesting, or funnier, or sadder, or more tormented, or whatever it is we value and want to promote.