It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe 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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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For he who loves God without faith reflects on himself, while the person who loves God in faith reflects on God.”
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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