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The question of immortality is of its nature not a scholarly question. It is a question welling up from the interior which the subject must put to itself as it becomes conscious of itself.

SOREN KIERKEGAARD, Concluding Unscientific Postscript

My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.

SOREN KIERKEGAARD, Either/Or

Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.

SOREN KIERKEGAARD, Either/Or

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

SOREN KIERKEGAARD, "Rotation of Crops," Either/Or


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