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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

Soren Kierkegaard

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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Freedom People Sarcastic
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Deep Life Past Pleasure Pursue
Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Past Philosophy Present Remember
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Life Live Philosophy Understand
The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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Beautiful Deep Heard High Life Live Read
To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Faith God Lose Mind
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Great Happiness Hide One Liner Place
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
My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Myself One Liner
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
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Function God Nature Philosophy Prayer
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
In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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Happiness Heart Reflection Romantic Secret
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 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

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.

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