"The task must be made difficult, for..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”

“And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.”

“The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.”

“It is not the path which is the difficulty; rather, it is the difficulty which is the path.”

“Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it.”

“There's nothing more difficult than a line.”

“All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.”

“It is a greater joy to see the author's author, than himself.”

“And of poetry, the success is not attained when it lulls and satisfies, but when it astonishes and fires us with new endeavours after the unattainable.”