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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?

Soren Kierkegaard

Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Past Philosophy Present Remember
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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Cry Deep Happiness Heart Hide Lips Man Music Philosophy Poet Sound
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
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
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Fight God Great Person Proud Right Strength
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Freedom People Sarcastic
I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Deep Existence Fingers Myself Philosophy
My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Faith Sad
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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Act Action Deep Easy Religious Understand
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Deep Life Past Pleasure Pursue
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Deep Think
Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner
My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Myself One Liner
It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Life Yourself
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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Deep Forget Life Live Philosophy True Understand
To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Faith God Lose Mind
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory.
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Deep Illusion Majority Oppression Politics Strong Truth

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