People understand me so poorly that they don’t even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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What labels me, negates me.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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 if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
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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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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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My sorrow is my castle.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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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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