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When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper?
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
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Genius never desires what does not exist.
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Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
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This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
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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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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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Take it and return it: the kiss of love.
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Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.
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If a man wants to set up as an innkeeper and he does not succeed, it is not comic. If, on the contrary, a girl asks to be allowed to set up as a prostitute and she fails, as sometimes happens, it is comic.
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The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.
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However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning.
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People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines.
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The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.
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To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.
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