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This world has ceaseceased to have its reflection in a higher universe, but the heaven of forms is figured in the host of images on this earth.

Kierkegaard wants to be cured. To be cured is his frenzied wish, and it runs throughout his whole journal. The entire effort of his intelligence is to escape the antinomy of the human condition. An all the more desperate effort since he intermittently perceives its vanity when he speaks of himself, as if neither fear of God nor piety were capable of bringing him to peace.

Reading this book is like walking through waist-deep powder snow; each word is another step, driving my knee through the medium.
Some notes:
-Dreams are the myths of a human, myths are the dreams of humanity
-Mythology's function is to carry the human spirit forward via symbolism
-A hero must detach/withdraw, enter the internal realm within, triumph over local mythologies, and become an "archetypal image"

Caligula
“One is always free at someone else’s expense”
“I want to drown the sky in the sea, to infuse ugliness with beauty, to wring a laugh from pain.”
“Yes, I wanted the moon”
“Most people imagine that a man suffers because out of the blue death snatches away the woman he loves. But his real suffering is less futile; it comes from the discovery that grief, too, cannot last. Even grief is vanity.”

P2 Ch9 the bee’s knees