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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.

Soren Kierkegaard

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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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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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My sorrow is my castle.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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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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What labels me, negates me.
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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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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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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