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Hope is a passion for the possible.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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A poet is not an apostle he drives out devils only by the power of the devil.
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May new sufferings torment your soul.
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Geniuses are like thunderstorms: they go against the wind, terrify people, clear the air.
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On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.
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The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
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The crucial thing is to find a truth which is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die.
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No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
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Jurists say that a capital crime submerges all lesser crimes and so it is with faith. Its absurdity makes all petty difficultiesvanish.
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It is better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed. The result may be the same, but you won't be. We always grow more through defeats than victories.
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The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.
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For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
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Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.
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