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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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• Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is so hard to believe because it is so hard to obey.

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

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

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• Once you label me you negate me.

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

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• Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

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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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• 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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• Purity of heart is to will one thing.

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• One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

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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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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (61)

Birth:	5th May, 1813
Death:	11th November, 1855
Nationality:	Danish
Profession:	Novelist, Philosopher, Theologian, Writer

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