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

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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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• Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life’s highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.

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

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• The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.

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• It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

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• To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

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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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• Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion–and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion … while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

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• Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.

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

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• What our age lacks is not reflection, but passion.

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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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Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (61)

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

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