"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
"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."
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Source: Either/Or by Soren Kierkegaard, Howard Vincent Hong, Edna Hatlestad Hong, Princeton University Press, Vol. 1, (p. 286), 2013.
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