My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDMy melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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