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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
Literary Critic
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Fear
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What labels me, negates me.
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