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

    Madame de Stael: One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering.
    Madame de Stael's letter to Claude Hochet (Summer 1800) as quoted in J. Christopher Herold "Mistress to an Age: A Life of Madame de Stael" (p. 223), 1958.