Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards. — Quoted

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“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”

Soren Kierkegaard · Experience

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Soren Kierkegaard

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.

Music

Soren Kierkegaard

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Freedom

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Life

Soren Kierkegaard

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.

Freedom