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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

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Future Pain Remember Yourself
My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Faith Love Relationship
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Deep Life Past Pleasure Pursue
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
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 labels me, negates me.
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Myself One Liner
The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.
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Act Action Deep Easy Religious Understand
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
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Believe Eyes God Great Philosophy Religion Sin Trouble
I am convinced that God is love.
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Convince God Love One Liner Spiritual
Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Past Philosophy Present Remember
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Fear Yourself
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
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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Beginning Born Cry Death Deep End Enjoyment Man Philosophy Woman
Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner
It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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Equality Interest Life Myself Philosophy

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