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Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
Literary Critic
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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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To Dare is to risk losing your foothold for a moment, Not to Dare is to risk losing yourself.
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When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.
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The presence of irony does not necessarily mean that the earnestness is excluded. Only assistant professors assume that.
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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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