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For I have trained myself and am training myself always to be able to dance lightly in the service o...

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People try to persuade us that the objections against Christianity spring from doubt. That is a comp...

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What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you r...

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My love consumes me. Only my voice is left, a voice which has fallen in love with you whispers to yo...

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Love is everything. So, for one who loves, everything has ceased to have meaning in itself and only ...

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I am poor—you are my riches; dark—you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own...

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I am poor—you are my riches; dark—you are my light; I own nothing, need nothing. And how could I own...

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For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequa...

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What am I? The modest narrator who accompanies your triumphs; the dancer who supports you when you r...

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Mine’: what does this word mean? Not what belongs to me, but what I belong to, what contains my whol...

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Love has many positionings. Cordelia makes good progress. She is sitting on my lap, her arm twines, ...

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When I was young, I forgot how to laugh in the cave of Trophonius; when I was older, I opened my eye...

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A 'no' does not hide anything, but a 'yes' very easily becomes a deception.

When I was very young and in the cave of Trophonius I forgot to laugh. Then, when I got older, when ...

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What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost...

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Søren KierkegaardEither/Or: A Fragment of Life

You are a hater of activity in life; quite right, for before there can be any meaning in activity, l...

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But we are curious about the result, just as we are curious about the way a book turns out. We do no...

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It takes a purely human courage to renounce the whole temporal realm in order to gain eternity, but ...

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Just as the weak, despairing person is unwilling to hear anything about any consolation eternity has...

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Søren KierkegaardThe Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening