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Patty’s Quotes

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

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“It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourished in self-confidence has more courage than the man who yielded to despair.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Irony: With Continual Reference to Socrates/Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures

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“The only intelligent tactical response to life’s horror is to laugh defiantly at it”
― Søren Kierkegaard

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“Woman is shut up in a kitchen or in a boudoir, and astonishment is expressed that her horizon is limited. Her wings are clipped, and it is found deplorable that she cannot fly. Let but the future be opened to her, and she will no longer be compelled to linger in the present.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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