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Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#blend #breathe #creep #each #earthly

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

The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#cannot #catch #catches #caught #only

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

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#always #completely #fruitful #fruitless #had

Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#haste #hurry #men #most #past

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

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#cannot #immediately #necessary #reap #sown