My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
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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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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.
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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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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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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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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.
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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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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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