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Silence is the demon's trap, and the more one is silenced, the more terrible the demon but silence is also the divinity's mutual understanding with the single individual.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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I am convinced that God is love, this thought has for me a primitive lyrical validity. When it is present to me, I am unspeakably blissful, when it is absent, I long for it more vehemently than does the lover for his object.
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Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.
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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.
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