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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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 function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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