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Compromise
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If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.
-Nikita Khrushchev
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Adversity
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Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
-Soren Kierkegaard
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Age
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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
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Reflection
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Nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. Before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with thought. It is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. He does not die with deliberation but from deliberation.
-Soren Kierkegaard
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Depression
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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.
-Soren Kierkegaard
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Desires
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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
-Soren Kierkegaard
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Enjoyment
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Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth --look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
-Soren Kierkegaard
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Faith
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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.
-Soren Kierkegaard
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Fear
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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
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Speech (freedom of)
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How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
-Soren Kierkegaard
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