There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: life's highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death.
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Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.Soren Kierkegaard
How ironical that it is by means of speech that man can degrade himself below the level of dumb creation -- for a chatterbox is truly of a lower category than a dumb creature.
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Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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It is quite true what Philosophy says that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying that it must be lived --forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.
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Where am I Who am I How did I come to be here What is this thing called the world How did I come into the world Why was I not consulted And If I am compelled to take part in it, Where is the director I want to see him.
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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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