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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.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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In a theatre it happened that a fire started off stage. The clown came out to tell the audience. They thought it was a joke and applauded. He told them again, and they became still more hilarious. This is the way, I suppose, that the world will be destroyed-amid the universal hilarity of wits and wags who think it is all a joke.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
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The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.
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If a man cannot forget, he will never amount to much.
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Without risk, faith is an impossibility.
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It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
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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.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self.
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...there is one thing that all Satan's cunning and all the snares of temptation cannot take by surprise - an undivided will.
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No one may pride himself at being more than an individual, and no one despondently think that he is not an individual.
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