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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

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Great Life Love Sad
My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Myself One Liner
I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Deep Existence Fingers Myself Philosophy
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Great Happiness Hide One Liner Place
People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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People Sarcastic Understand
Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner
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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Advice Friendship Honest Possible Regret Situation
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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Deep Illusion Majority Oppression Politics Strong Truth
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Believe Hard One Liner
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Change Fact Philosophy Yourself
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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Fight God Great Person Proud Right Strength
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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Faith Religion Sin Virtue
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Deep Life Past Pleasure Pursue
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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Believe Philosophy True Way
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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Cry Deep Happiness Heart Hide Lips Man Music Philosophy Poet Sound
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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Deep Human Philosophy Understand

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