The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.
Soren KierkegaardAffliction is able to drown out every earthly voice. . . but the voice of eternity within a person it cannot drown.
Soren KierkegaardWhat is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?
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