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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Men think that it is impossible for a human being to love his enemies, for enemies are hardly able to endure the sight of one another. Well, then, shut your eyes--and your enemy looks just like your neighbor.
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...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.
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To love another person is to help them love God.
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The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.
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The door to happiness opens outward.
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Choose to be who you are. . . The individual who would become a person must at some point take over his entire being - must, that is, choose herself.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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The God that can be named is not God.
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Pleasure disappoints possibility never.
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The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes.
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness I have walked myself into my best thoughts.
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