One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering  

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One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering is a dictum by Germaine de Staël

Found in a letter to Claude Hochet (Summer 1800), quoted in J. Christopher Herold, Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Staël (New York: Grove Press, 1958), p. 223

Herold comments: "Her decision was emphatically in favor of suffering, which after all was a pleasure compared to boredom." (p. 224)

The actual quotation is from a letter from Mme de Staël to Claude Hochet dated October 1, 1800 : «Il faut choisir dans la vie entre l’ennui et le tourment : je donne l’un et l’hiver l’autre» (Germaine de Staël, Correspondance générale. Tome IV. Première partie. Du directoire au Consulat. 1er décembre 1796-15 décembre 1800, texte établi et présenté par Béatrice W. Jasinski, Paris, Chez Jean-Jacques Pauvert, 1976, xii/337 p., p. 326).

Larger excerpt:

"... plus d'inimitiés dans le monde et je crains bien de les retrouver toutes en parfaite vigueur – il faut choisir dans la vie entre l'ennui et le tourment , je donne l'un et l'hiver l'autre je compte cependant vivre tranquille cet hiver car l'arrivée d'une ..."


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