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Preparation for becoming attentive to Christianity does not consist in reading many books ... but in fuller immersion in existence.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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No one is so terribly deceived as he who does not himself suspect it.
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