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Søren Kierkegaard
“Hvis et Menneske eiede et Brev, hvorom han vidste eller troede, at det indeholdt Oplysning om hvad han maatte ansee for sit Livs Salighed, men Skrifttegnene vare fine og blege, Haandskriften næsten ulæselig, da vilde han vel med Angst og Uro, med al Lidenskab læse og atter læse, og i eet Øieblik faae een Mening ud, i det næste en anden, i Forhold til som han, naar han troede med Bestemthed at have læst et Ord, vilde forklare Alt efter dette; men han vilde aldrig komme videre end til den samme Uvished, med hvilken han begyndte. Han vilde stirre, ængsteligere og ængsteligere, men jo mere han stirrede, jo mindre saae han; hans Øie vilde stundom fyldes med Taarer, men jo oftere det hændte ham, jo mindre saae han; i Tidens Løb blev Skriften blegere og utydeligere, tilsidst hensmuldrede Papiret selv, og han beholdt intet Andet tilbage end et taareblændet Øie.”
Søren Kierkegaard, Enten-Eller

Herman Melville
“I will have no man in my boat,” said Starbuck, “who is not afraid of a whale.” By this, he seemed to mean, not only that the most reliable and useful courage was that which arises from the fair estimation of the encountered peril, but than an utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.”
Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Walt Whitman
“I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete,
The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.”
Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman
“(Curious in time I stand, noting the efforts of heroes,
Is the deferment long? bitter the slander, poverty, death?
Lies the seed unreck’d for centuries in the ground? lo, to God’s due occasion,
Uprising in the night, it sprouts, it blooms,
And fills the earth with use and beauty.)”
Walt Whitman, Passage to India

Herman Melville
“See ye not then, shipmates, that Jonah sought to flee world-wide from God? Miserable man! Oh! Most contemptible and worthy of all scorn; with slouched hat and guilty eye, skulking from his God; prowling among the shipping like a vile burglar hastening to cross the seas. So disordered, self-condemning is his look, that had there been policemen in those days, Jonah, on the mere suspicion of something wrong, had been arrested ere he touched a deck.”
Herman Melville, Moby Dick

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