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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.

Soren Kierkegaard

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Be Yourself
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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Deep Great Loss
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
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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Eyes Myself Passion Philosophy Possible Potential Power Wealth
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Great Life Love Sad
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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Beginning Born Cry Death Deep End Enjoyment Man Philosophy Woman
To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Faith God Lose Mind
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
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Freedom People Sarcastic
The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Difficult Heart Inspirational
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Deep Think
Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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Faith One Liner Reflection
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Life Problem Reality
I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Deep Existence Fingers Myself Philosophy
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Change Fact Philosophy Yourself
The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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Believe Eyes God Great Philosophy Religion Sin Trouble

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