| A poet is an unhappy being whose heart is torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: "Sing for us soon again;" that is as much as to say, "May new sufferings torment your soul." |
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- Soren Kierkegaard |
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| The tyrant dies and his rule ends, the martyr dies and his rule begins. |
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- Soren Kierkegaard |
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| Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward. |
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- Soren Kierkegaard |
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| I divide my time as follows: half the time I sleep, the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep, for that would be a pity, for sleeping is the highest accomplishment of genius. |
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- Soren Kierkegaard |
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| Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. |
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- Soren Kierkegaard |
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| People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. |
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- Soren Kierkegaard |
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| Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. |
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- Soren Kierkegaard |
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| To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself. |
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- Soren Kierkegaard |
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| Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. |
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- Soren Kierkegaard |
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