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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.
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It is not a gain that guilt should be wholly forgotten. On the contrary, it is loss and perdition. But it is a gain to win an inner intensity of heart through a deeper and deeper inner sorrowing over guilt.
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