Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDTruth 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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My melancholy is the most faithful mistress I have known; what wonder, then, that I love her in return.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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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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Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself!
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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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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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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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