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" Love is all, it gives all, and it takes all. "

Soren Kierkegaard

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" The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. "

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" The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes. "

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" People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something. "

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" At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference. "

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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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" Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. "

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" During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk. "

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" Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings. "

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" If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe. "

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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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" Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself. "

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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 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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" Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. "

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" Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. "

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" Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer. "

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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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" Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. "

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" Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood. "

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