Ecclesiastes/theme

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    And desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 12:5.

    Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom.—A theme for a great poet would be God’s boredom on the seventh day of creation.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)