The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIn my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
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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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