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Are these things really better than the things I already have? Or am I just trained to be dissatisfied with what I have now?
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want
more
palahniuk
dissatisfaction
lullaby
consumerism
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Chuck Palahniuk |
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To be loved to madness--such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.
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unhappiness
dissatisfaction
drama-queen
self-delusion
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Thomas Hardy |
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"We've had enough." He took back the report and jammed it under his arm. "We've had a bellyful, in fact." "And like everyone who's had enough," said Control as Alleline noisily left the room, "he wants more."
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greed
saturation
desires
dissatisfaction
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John le Carré |
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The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there's no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning.
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suicide
solitude
loneliness
satisfaction
depression
cyberworld
endlessness
facebook-addiction
filler
first-world-problems
virtual
solitary
stimulation
distractions
dissatisfaction
facebook-quotes
david-foster-wallace
jonathan-franzen
boredom
facebook
cyber
emptiness
problems
robinson-crusoe
empty
void
lonely
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Jonathan Franzen |
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But she--her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart.
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dissatisfaction
restlessness
discontent
frustration
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Gustave Flaubert |
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Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough.
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wealth
modern-age
dissatisfaction
possibilities
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Alain de Botton |
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"There's not enough wrong with it to leave and there's just enough wrong with it to stay," Matthew later told me. "Fight to change it."
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dissatisfaction
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Nadia Bolz-Weber |