No one ever comes back from the dead, no one ever enters the world without weeping; no one is asked when he wishes to enter life, no one is asked when he wishes to leave.
Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
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Søren Kierkegaard, Diaries 1813-1855
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Photography by Antigone Kourakou
People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.
~Søren Kierkegaard
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“If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
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"My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love."
-Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
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Language, the word, is precisely what saves; it is what saves from the empty abstraction of self-enclosure.
Søren Kierkegaard from The Concept of Anxiety
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Quando chiedi ad un malinconico quale sia la ragione del suo stato d'animo, cosa gli pesa, ti risponderà che non lo sa, che non si può spiegare. Ecco lo sconfinato orizzonte della malinconia.
Søren Kierkegaard
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Frank Schawlow, "Temporality Revisited: Kierkegaard and the Transitive Character of Time"
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“La felicità è una porta che si apre dall'interno: per aprirla bisogna umilmente fare un passo indietro.”
— Søren Kierkegaard
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心の純粋さとは、ひとつのものを望むことである。
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Søren Kierkegaard
セーレン・キルケゴール(キェルケゴール)
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It is dangerous to cut oneself off too much, to withdraw from the bonds of society.
Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers
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"Hayatını Saklayan Kişi Güzel Yaşamıştır..."
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Everyday the realist and the romanticist inside me fight.
The realist thinks that MBTI doesn’t hold any scientific evidence of being more reliable than astrology or lie detector tests.
The romanticist blossoms because I share the same personality type as my favorite classical literature authors, painters and musicians.
I think the romanticist wins most of the time.
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“Geniuses are like thunderstorms. They go against the wind, terrify people, cleanse the air.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, “Papers and Journals”
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Søren Kierkegaard, from Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 1
Text ID: I shall now try to look calmly at myself and begin to act inwardly; for only in this way will I be able, as the child in its first consciously undertaken act refers to itself as “I,” to call myself “I” in a profounder sense.
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