Sunday Sentence

Leo Tolstoy in 1897.

 

In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”

Boredom: the desire for desires.

Source: Leo Tolstoy, in a presumably translated epigraph at the start of Craig Brown’s Ninety-Nine Glimpses of Princess Margaret.