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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

Soren Kierkegaard

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
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Great Life Love Sad
Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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Born Death Philosophy Yourself
Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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Fear 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
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
Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Past Philosophy Present Remember
The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Future Pain Remember Yourself
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
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
Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Deep Think
Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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Deep Life Past Pleasure Pursue
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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Fight God Great Person Proud Right Strength
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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Function God Nature Philosophy Prayer
I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Deep Existence Fingers Myself Philosophy
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Be Yourself

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