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  1. E.M. Forster _ Where Angels Fear to Tread

    Every little trifle, for some reason, does seem incalculably important today, and when you say of a thing that 'nothing hangs on it,' it sounds like blasphemy. There's never any knowing-{how am I to put it?}-which of our actions, which of our idlenesses won't have things hanging on it for ever.
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  2. V.C. Andrews _ Flowers in the Attic

    Then turn your eyes back on me,and tell me that Cathy and I are still children to be treated with condescension, and are incapable of understanding adult subjects. We haven'tremained idle, twiddling our thumbs while you were off having a good time.
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  3. Vladimir Nabokov _ Mary

    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.
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  4. Albert Camus _ A Happy Death

    He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre."
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  5. Toni Morrison _ Sula

    In a way, her strangeness, her naivete, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of idle imagination. Had she paints, or clay, or knew the discipline of the dance, or strings; had she anything to engage her tremendous curiosity and her gift for metaphor, she might have exchanged the restlessness and preoccupation with whim for an activity that provided her with all she yearned for. And like any artist with no art from, she became dangerous."
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  6. C.G. Jung _ The Archetypes and the

    Were it not for the leaping and twinkling of the soul, man would rot away in his greatest passion, idleness.
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  7. Anthony Burgess _ Little Wilson and Big God

    Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.
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