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Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.
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If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
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