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Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.

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Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

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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.

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Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.

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The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

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God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

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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.

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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

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Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

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I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

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Biography

Nationality: Danish

Type: Philosopher

Born: May 5th, 1813

Died: November 11th, 1855

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