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The most common despair is...not choosing, or willing, to be oneself...[but] the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Soren Kierkegaard
Age: 42 †
Born: 1813
Born: January 1
Died: 1855
Died: January 1
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
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All moral elevation consists first and foremost of being weaned from the momentary.
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... all comparisons injure.
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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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I am so fed up and joyless that not only have I nothing to fill my soul, I cannot even conceive of anything that could possibly satisfy it - alas, not even the bliss of heaven.
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No, I won't leave the world--I'll enter a lunatic asylum and see if the profundity of insanity reveals to me the riddles of life. Idiot, why didn't I do that long ago, why has it taken me so long to understand what it means when the Indians honour the insane, step aside for them? Yes, a lunatic asylum--don't you think I may end up there?
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Where there are two people, there is untruth.
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Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?
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A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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