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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.

Soren Kierkegaard

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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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I stick my finger into existence and it smells of nothing.
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Hope is a passion for the possible.
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My sorrow is my castle.
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Happiness is the greatest hiding place for despair.
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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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My standpoint is armed neutrality.
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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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There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
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Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor.
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Boredom is the root of all evil.
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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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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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In the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart.
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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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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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What labels me, negates me.
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I am convinced that God is love.
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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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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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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 is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.
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To have faith is precisely to lose one’s mind so as to win God.
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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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Now, with God’s help, I shall become myself.
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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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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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