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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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...even the richest personality is nothing before he has chosen himself, and on the other hand even what one might call the poorest personality is everything when he has chosen himself for the great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself, and this everyone can be if he wills it.
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Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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Take it and return it: the kiss of love.
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Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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All essential knowledge relates to existence, or only such knowledge as has an essential relationship to existence is essential knowledge.
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I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.
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When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.
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I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.
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To be a woman is something so strange, so confusing and so complicated that only a woman could put up with it.
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The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
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It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.
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The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
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In order to swim one takes off all one's clothes--in order to aspire to the truth one must undress in a far more inward sense, divest oneself of all one's inward clothes, of thoughts, conceptions, selfishness etc., before one is sufficiently naked.
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To be a saint is to will the one thing.
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