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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

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Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.

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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

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During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.

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People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.

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To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

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Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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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.

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Once you label me you negate me.

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Biography

Nationality: Danish

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 5th, 1813

Died: November 11th, 1855

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