There is, in the Army, a little known but very important activity appropriately called Fatigue. Fatigue, in the Army, is the very necessary cleaning and repairing of the aftermath of living. Any man who has ever owned a gun has known Fatigue, when, after fifteen minutes in the woods and perhaps three shots at an elusive squirrel, he has gone home to spend three-quarters of an hour cleaning up his piece so that it will be ready next time he goes to the woods. Any woman who has ever cooked a luscious meal and ladled it out in plates upon the table has known Fatigue, when, after the glorious meal is eaten, she repairs to the kitchen to wash the congealed gravy from the plates and the slick grease from the cooking pots so they will be ready to be used this evening, dirtied, and so washed again. It is the knowledge of the unendingness and of the repetitious uselessness, the do it up so it can be done again, that makes Fatigue fatigue.
James JonesTags: futility army chores repetition domesticity fatigue
A frenzy of activity that had mostly led him in circles: wasn't that a fairly accurate description of lust?
Jennifer EganTags: lust repetition
I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.
Criss JamiTags: moderation addiction obsession overdoing repetition abuse excessive
So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox...
Stanisław LemTags: fear science life love free-will humanity time despair mankind emotion resignation hopelessness repetition creationism inevitability cycles
History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other."
[1880]
Tags: history historians repetition
I think certain types of processes don’t allow for any variation. If you have to be part of that process, all you can do is transform—or perhaps distort—yourself through that persistent repetition, and make that process a part of your own personality.
Haruki MurakamiTags: work-ethic repetition
The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting.
Vladimir NabokovTags: life dreams hope idleness boredom repetition expectancy
[...]to be real--to become fluent, natural, to cut out the detour that sweeps us around what's fundamental to events, preventing us from touching their core: the detour that makes us all second-hand and second-rate.
Tom McCarthyTags: reality authenticity repetition
... the vintage of history is forever repeating ~ same old vines, same old wines!
E.A. BucchianeriTags: philosophical-humor history human-nature history-repeating-itself faust wine goethe vines sad-but-true repetition history-of-mankind
By the fifth 'I'm sorry' for the same cause, it's better to just say, I meant to do it.
Anthony LiccioneTags: apologies repetition redundant
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