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People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

Soren Kierkegaard

What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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Deep Laughter Philosophy Tears World
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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Equality Interest Life Myself Philosophy
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
It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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Deep Human Philosophy Understand
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
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Be Yourself
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
Don’t forget to love yourself.
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One Liner Self Love Yourself
Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Past Philosophy Present Remember
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Desire Lose One Liner Speak
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Deep Think
My sorrow is my castle.
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Myself One Liner Sorrow
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
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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Eyes Myself Passion Philosophy Possible Potential Power Wealth
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

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