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It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.
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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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Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.
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I have, I believe, the courage to doubt everything I have, I believe, the courage to fight against everything but I do not have the courage to acknowledge anything, the courage to possess, to own anything.
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Only the noble of heart are called to difficulty.
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The truth is lived before it is understood. It must be fought for, tested, and appropriated. Truth is the way... Anyone will easily understand it if he just gives himself to it.
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To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.
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People have an idea that the preacher is an actor on a stage and they are the critics, blaming or praising him. What they don't know is that they are the actors on the stage he (the preacher) is merely the prompter standing in the wings, reminding them of their lost lines.
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Spirit is the third, yet in such a way that one can speak of a synthesis only when the spirit is posited.
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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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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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