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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.
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 is a very curious thing about superstition. One would expect that the man who had once seen his morbid dreams were not fulfilled would abandon them for the future but on the contrary they grow even stronger just as the love of gambling increases in a man who has once lost in a lottery.
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Seek first God's Kingdom, that is, become like the lilies and the birds, become perfectly silent - then shall the rest be added unto you.
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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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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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Love believes all things and yet is never deceived.
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Take it and return it: the kiss of love.
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Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.
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I go fishing for a thousand monsters in the depths of my own self
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.
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What I really need is to get clear about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge must precede every act. What matters is to find a purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do 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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I found I had less and less to say, until finally, I became silent, and began to listen. I discovered in the silence, the voice of God
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Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world?
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If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
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Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?
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I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.
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My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.
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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.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.
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