My sorrow is my castle.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhat 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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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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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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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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