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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.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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My sorrow is my castle.
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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Comparison is the most dangerous acquaintance love can make.
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Pleasure disappoints possibility never.
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The resolving of the ethical, is freedom the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.
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Job endured everything - until his friends came to comfort him, then he grew impatient.
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This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think.
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I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?
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Now, with God's help, I shall become myself.
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