It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDFace the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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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 standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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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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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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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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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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