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“And death cannot deprive you of the neighbor, for if it takes one, then life immediatey gives you another in return. Death can deprive you of a friend, because in loving a friend you really hold together with the friend, but in loving the neighbor you hold together with God: therefore, death cannot deprive you of the neighbor. If, therefore, you have lost everything in romantic love and in friendship, if you have never possessed anything of that happiness: in loving the neighbor, you nonetheless retain what is best.”
― Kierkegaard Søren 1813-1855

“People have in turn become so differentiated in the differences that are a part of the temporal world, and they perhaps misunderstand it if someone who does not share their difference is willing to stand together with them... he easily becomes the target of attacks from every quarter, he easily becomes like a lost sheep among ravening wolves.”
― Kierkegaard Søren 1813-1855

“I've called it a quarrel, but it wasn't a quarrel, it was only the uncovering of the abyss that actually lay between us. Amorousness had been exhausted by the satisfaction of sensuality, and we were left facing each other in our actual relation to each other, that is, two egoists totally alien to each other, wishing to get as much pleasure as possible each from the other. I've called what happened between us a quarrel; but it was not a quarrel, it was only the uncovering of our actual relation to each other as a result of the cessation of sensuality. I didn't understand that this cold and hostile relation was our normal relation, did not understand it because this hostile relation of the first days was very soon concealed from us again by a newly arisen 'rectified' sensuality, that is, amorousness.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“One can be deceived by appearances, but one can certainly also be deceived by the cunning appearance, by the ingratiating conceit that believes itself entirely protected against deception.”
― Soren Kierkegaard