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“To me the only death is monotony. I always say to Ellen: Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony.” G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
“Emma was like all his mistresses; and the charm of novelty, gradually falling away like a garment, laid bare the eternal monotony of passion, that has always the same forms and the same language.” Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
“Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.” Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea

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