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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDWhat 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.
More Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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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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