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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.

Soren Kierkegaard

I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Deep Existence Fingers Myself Philosophy
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
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Fear Yourself
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Function God Nature Philosophy Prayer
The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, ‘Create silence’.
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Advice Life Present Silence World
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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Freedom Liberty Man Sarcastic
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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Beautiful Deep Heard High Life Live Read
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Be Yourself
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
To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Faith God Lose Mind
It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Life Yourself
My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Myself One Liner
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
Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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God Myself One Liner Spiritual
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Great Life Love Sad
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

My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.

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