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When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, It is talking to me, and about me.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?
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On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart
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