"We have a world of pleasure to win,……" — Raoul Vaneigem

We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose… - Raoul Vaneigem

"We have a world of pleasure to win, and nothing to lose but boredom."

— Raoul Vaneigem

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40 Quotes by Raoul Vaneigem

Raoul Vaneigem has 40 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal, it can…
The eruption of lived pleasure is such that in losing myself I find myself; forgetting that I exist, I realize…
People without imagination are beginning to tire of the importance attached to comfort, to culture, to leisure, to all that…
As poverty has been reduced in terms of mere survival, it has become more profound in terms of our way…
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.
Work to survive, survive by consuming, survive to consume; the hellish cycle is complete.
In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions,…
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of…
Suffering is the pain of constraints. An atom of pure delight, no matter how small, can hold it at bay.
Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned…
In the kingdom of consumption the citizen is king. A democratic monarchy: equality before consumption, fraternity in consumption, and freedom…
We can escape the commonplace only by manipulating it, controlling it, thrusting it into our dreams or surrendering it to…

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More Boredom Quotes

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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice. — Richard Bach
I have a fear of being boring. — Christian Bale
No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film. — Robert Adams
Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself. — Charles Baudelaire
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. — Walter Benjamin
Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that… — Renata Adler
Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. — Ambrose Bierce
For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life… — Joseph Brodsky
I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. — Lenny Bruce
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. — Jean de la Bruyere
I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so… — Warren Buffett
In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom. — William S. Burroughs

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