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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.

Soren Kierkegaard

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

People Sarcastic Understand
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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Act Action Deep Easy Religious Understand
Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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God Myself One Liner Spiritual
My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Myself One Liner
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
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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Experience Life Problem Reality
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
My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Faith Sad
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth — look at the dying man’s struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
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Beginning Born Cry Death Deep End Enjoyment Man Philosophy Woman
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
The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Be Yourself
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
What labels me, negates me.
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Myself One Liner
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
In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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Happiness Heart Reflection Romantic Secret
My sorrow is my castle.
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Myself One Liner Sorrow

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