Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward.

Soren Kierkegaard
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  3. In the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution. - Zadie Smith

  4. The truth is not so important as the leaving of it behind. - Clare Francis

  5. Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come... - A.E. Housman

More Quotes By Soren Kierkegaard
  1. A person who speaks like a book is exceedingly boring to listen to; sometimes, however, it is not inappropriate to talk in that way. For a book has the remarkable property that it can be interpreted any way you wish. If one talks like a...

  2. Most people believe that the Christian commandments are intentionally a little too severe - like setting a clock half an hour ahead to make sure of not being late in the morning.

  3. Purity of heart is to will one thing.

  4. Truth is not introduced into the individual from without but was within him all the time.

  5. Wherever there is a crowd there is untruth.

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