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Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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The only analogy I have before me is Socrates. My task is a Socratic task, to revise the definition of what it is to be a Christian. For my part I do not call myself a Christian (thus keeping the ideal free), but I am able to make it evident that the others are still less than I.
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Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
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There can be no faith without risk.
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On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart
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Just as in the great moment of resignation one does not mediate but chooses, now the task is to gain proficiency in repeating the impassioned choice and, existing, to express it in existence.
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Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
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Dread is a womanish debility in which freedom swoons. Psychologically speaking, the fall into sin always occurs in impotence. But dread is at the same time the most egotistic thing.
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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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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
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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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Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.
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Nothing is as heady as the wine of possibility
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No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
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Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness I have walked myself into my best thoughts.
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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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The person who praises God is on the tracks of justice.
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Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.
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Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
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Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.
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Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
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