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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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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Genius never desires what does not exist.
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But doubt is wily and cunning and never, as it is sometimes said to be, loud or defiant. It is unassuming and sly, not bold or assertive - and the more unassuming, the more dangerous.
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Absolute passion cannot be understood by a third party.
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The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.
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Once you label me you negate me.
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Don't forget to love yourself.
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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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Worship isn't God's show. God is the audience. God's watching. The congregation, they are the actors in this drama. Worship is their show. And the minister is just reminding the people of their forgotten lines.
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Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.
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With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.
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It was not to save a nation that Abraham went to sacrifice Isaac, nor to appease angry gods... Then why does Abraham do it? For God's sake... He does it for the sake of God because God demands proof of his faith... He was not justified by being virtuous, but by being an individual submitted to God in faith.
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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The Bible is God's love letter to us
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No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
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You wanted God's ideas about what was best for you to coincide with your ideas, but you also wanted him to be the almighty Creator of heaven and earth so that he could properly fulfill your wish. And yet, if he were to share your ideas, he would cease to be the almighty Father.
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Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.
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Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?
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