Søren Kierkegaard quotes
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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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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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
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The most common form of despair is not being who you are.
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The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.
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Once you label me you negate me.
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The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.
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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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Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.
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To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.
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If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.
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Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it.
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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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It is impossible to exist without passion.
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The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.
