What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?
SOREN KIERKEGAARDHope is a passion for the possible.
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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.
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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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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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My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
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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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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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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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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forwards.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you’ll never have.
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What labels me, negates me.
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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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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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Why bother remembering a past that cannot be made into a present?
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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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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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In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
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