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“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

“That which in all its abundance is essentially inexhaustible is also in its least work essentially indescribable precisely because essentially it is entirely present everywhere and is essentially incapable of description.”
― Kierkegaard Søren 1813-1855

“Then, when the rain falls" and destroys the exalted fragility of that delicate love, "when the winds blow and beat against" the web of hypocrisy: then the love that is genuine shall be known by its fruits.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“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