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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?

Soren Kierkegaard

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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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What labels me, negates me.
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Myself One Liner
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Deep Existence Fingers Myself Philosophy
It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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