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

Soren Kierkegaard

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
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Afraid Deep Inspirational Man Philosophy
Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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God Myself One Liner Spiritual
To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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Faith God Lose Mind
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
Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Life Live Philosophy Understand
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Be Yourself
Boredom is the root of all evil.
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Evil One Liner
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
Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Past Philosophy Present Remember
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Fear Yourself
People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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People Sarcastic Understand
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 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.
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Advice Friendship Honest Possible Regret Situation
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
Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Change Fact Philosophy Yourself
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
Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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Great Happiness Hide One Liner Place
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
What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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Exist Laugh Man Philosophy
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
It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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Believe Hard One Liner
And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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Faith Religion Sin Virtue
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
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 sorrow is my castle.
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Myself One Liner Sorrow
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
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

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

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