Ecclesiastes/theme

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    For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 1:18.

    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)