“To love to read is to exchange hours of ennui for hours of delight.”
Charles de Montesquieu
“TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Employment and ennui are simply incompatible”
Dorothe Deluzy
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Love is the exchange of two fantasies and the contact of two skins.”
Chamfort
“Love, in present-day society, is just the exchange of two imaginary pictures, and the contact of one epidermis with another.”
