My melancholy is the most faithful sweetheart I have had.
SOREN KIERKEGAARDThe most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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Above all, do not lose your desire to walk.
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Don’t forget to love yourself.
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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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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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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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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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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And this is one of the most crucial definitions for the whole of Christianity; that the opposite of sin is not virtue but faith.
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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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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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Leap of faith – yes, but only after reflection
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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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