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" Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable. "

Soren Kierkegaard

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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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" 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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" What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. "

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" Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. "

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" Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. "

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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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" Be that self which one truly is. "

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

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" It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting. "

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" Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. "

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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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" Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die. "

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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 has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living. "

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" One can advise comfortably from a safe port. "

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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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" It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite. "

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" God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. "

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" Don't forget to love yourself. "

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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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" Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. "

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" Purity of heart is to will one thing. "

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" I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. "

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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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" I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved. "

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

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" The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins. "

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" Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own. "

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" Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. "

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