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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. "
Soren Kierkegaard
Out
Long
I Am
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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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" 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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" 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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" Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good. "
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" Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays. "
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" Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. "
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" Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. "
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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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" Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. "
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" Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are. "
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