“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― The Journals of Kierkegaard
― The Journals of Kierkegaard
“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.”
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“Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
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“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!”
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
“Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle--what joy, then, would you have in it?”
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
― Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
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