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

Soren Kierkegaard

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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Advice Friendship Honest Possible Regret Situation
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Great Life Love Sad
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
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Life Problem Reality
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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Faith God Himself Love Person Philosophy Reflection
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Fear Yourself
My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Faith Sad
My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Faith Love Relationship
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
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Freedom People Sarcastic
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Desire Lose One Liner Speak
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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Believe Philosophy True Way
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Great Happiness Hide One Liner Place
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
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.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD

Deep Illusion Majority Oppression Politics Strong Truth
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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