In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDIt 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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Once you are born in this world you’re old enough to die.
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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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The task must be made difficult, for only the difficult inspires the noble-hearted.
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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand.
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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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