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" Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. "

Soren Kierkegaard

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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. "

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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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" Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. "

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

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" Be that self which one truly is. "

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