"Oh, can I really believe the poet's..." - Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
Oh, can I really believe the poet's tales, that when one first sees the object of one's love, one imagines one has seen her long ago, that all love like all knowledge is remembrance, thatlove too has its prophecies in the individual.
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“For love is exultant when it unites equals, but it is triumphant when it makes that which was unequal equal in love.”
“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.”
“Those who dream must be awakened, and the deeper the people are who slumber, or the deeper they slumber, the more important it is that they be awakened, and the more powerfully must they be awakened.”
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“To love or have loved is all-sufficing. We must not ask for more. No other pearl is to be found in the shadowfolds of life. To love is an accomplishment.”
“I've never been pregnant, so I just feel God didn't mean for me to have kids so that everybody else's children could be mine.”
“Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.”
More on Knowledge
“Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.”
“Of all tools, an observatory is the most sublime. . . . What is so good in a college as an observatory? The sublime attaches to the door and to the first stair you ascent, that this is the road to the stars.”
“Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.”