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   Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

   Søren Kierkegaard

   “Idleness … is a truly divine life, if one is not bored… It may be said that everyone who lacks a sense for it thereby shows that he has not raised himself to the human level.”

   Kierkegaard on boredom vs. idleness, our compulsive busyness, and the only true cure for existential emptiness:

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