Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDBoredom is the root of all evil.
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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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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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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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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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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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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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