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Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.

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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
Literary Critic
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Theologian
Writer
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Kierkegaard
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard
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Jobs
Everything
Endured
Impatient
Friendship
Comfort
Grew
Came
Friends

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I believe that there is a longing in my soul that searches the whole world.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false.
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Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner put yourself in his place so that you may understand . . . what he learns and the way he understands it.
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At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
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Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
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To venture causes anxiety. Not to venture is to lose oneself.
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Truth is not introduced into the individual from without, but was within him all the time.
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It will be easy for us the first time we receive that ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many there are who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?
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I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit ——————————— and wanted to shoot myself.
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To the frivolous Christianity is certainly not glad tidings, for it wishes first of all to make them serious.
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You train yourself in the art of being mysterious to everyone. My dear friend! What if there were no one, who cared about guessing your riddle, what pleasure would you then take in it?
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm and shrewdly relapsing into repose.
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Theology sits rouged at the window and courts philosophy's favor, offering to sell her charms to it.
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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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Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself.
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The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.
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For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.
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