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"No other species flees from boredom with as much urgency as we do. We are far more eager to do brain work than we are to do physical labor."

"As the unexpected becomes ordinary, the spotlight shifts once again to land where your brain thinks it will get more informational bang for the attentional buck."

"Novelty is the fuel on which the imagination runs."

"Novelty has a way of intensifying memory. The less often you do something, the deeper the memory burrows in."

"Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again."

"To seek contentment is to release the novelty that lies within monotony"

"I'm old, but I'm not good enough to be jaded."

"He said it twice because he had never said it before, and it sounded funny."

"Longing for something fresh, for something no one else has said often leads to bad exegesis."

"We would like the truth to be revealed to us by novel signs, not by a sentence, a sentence similar to those which we have constantly repeated to ourselves. The habit of thinking prevents us at times f..."