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Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted?
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
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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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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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When you read God's Word, you must constantly be saying to yourself, It is talking to me, and about me.
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Certainty... lurks at the door of faith and threatens to devour it.
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It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
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My tactics were, by God's aid, to employ every means to make it clear what the requirement of Christianity truly is.
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The more people who believe something, the more apt it is to be wrong. The person who's right often has to stand alone.
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Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.
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A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.
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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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It doesn't occur to me at this moment to say more another time, perhaps tomorrow, I may have more to say, but always the same thing and about the same, for only gypsies, robber gangs and swindlers follow the adage that where a person has once been he is never to go again.
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It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.
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A human being is a spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation.
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It is not where we breathe, but where we Love, that we live.
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With respect to physical existence, one needs little, and to the degree that one needs less, the more perfect one is.
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Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.
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Take it and return it: the kiss of love.
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Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.
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Every mental act is composed of doubt and belief, but it is belief that is the positive, it is belief that sustains thought and holds the world together.
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