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41 " God had a more powerful meaning-providing force than Coca-Cola and Elvis, and no matter how beautiful Marilyn Monroe was, she was hardly in the same league as the Christ’s Mother. "
― Lars Fredrik Händler Svendsen , A Philosophy of Boredom
42 " By completely ignoring the emotions, including boredom, the emotions were to be made to cease, hopefully to be replaced by a profound peace of mind, something close to the ataraxia of antiquity "
43 " I think that once you see emotions from a certain angle, you can never think of them as real again. That’s what more or less has happened to me’, "
44 " As mentioned, boredom is not a question of work or freedom but of meaning. "