Vanitas, vanitatis… to be God
Vanitas vanitatis are two terms related to a passage from Ecclesiastes: “Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas” (“Vanity of vanities, everything is vanity”), which tries to convey the uselessness of worldly pleasures in the face of the certainty of death and the absurd attempt of man to resemble God, forgetting that he is a mortal and finite being. Vanitas is a Latin term that we can translate as vanity, in the sense of insignificance.
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