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“What we will criticize 'modern' eroticism for is its lack of genuine sensuality, a sensuality which implies beauty or charm, passion or modesty, power over the object of desire, and fulfilment.”
― Critique of Everyday Life, Volume 1
― Critique of Everyday Life, Volume 1
“I have just returned from a party of which I was the life and soul; wit poured from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me–but I went away– and wanted to shoot myself.”
― The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections from His Journals
― The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections from His Journals
“the animal merely uses external nature and brings about changes in it simply by its presence; man by his changes makes nature serve his ends, masters it.”
― The Part Played By Labour in the Transition From Ape to Man
― The Part Played By Labour in the Transition From Ape to Man
“Of the small number of things which I have liked and done well, drinking is by far the thing I have done best. Although I have read a lot, I have drunk more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk more than the majority of the people who drink.”
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“Happiness is like good health: when you have it, you don’t notice it. But as the years go by, oh, the memories, the memories of happiness past!”
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