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What labels me, negates me.

Soren Kierkegaard

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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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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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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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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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 self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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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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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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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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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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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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My sorrow is my castle.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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