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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#barb #childhood #die #earliest #heart

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#becoming #capable #doing #enormously #every

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#concentrate #essential #important #most #only

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#asylum #built #dean #dreams #himself

Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#away #paradox #professor #take #thinker

Purity of heart is to will one thing. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#one thing #purity #thing #will

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#anyone #begins #bid #cheap #clearance

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#because #become #both #death #good

There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#death #die #enjoyment #fertilization #highest

They're saying Arnold will get 95% of the vote. At least according to his brother, Jeb Schwarzenegger. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#arnold #brother #get #his #jeb