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It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.

It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
– Sren Kierkegaard

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  8. Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself! – Sren Kierkegaard
  9. Prayer is listening. – Sren Kierkegaard
  10. Shows itself in the notion that what may be objectively true may in the mouth of certain people become false. – Sren Kierkegaard
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  14. Hope is a passion for the possible. – Sren Kierkegaard
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  16. I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this. – Sren Kierkegaard
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  34. As his body became more and more defenseless, so his means of offense became steadily more frightful. – Arthur C Clarke
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  39. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility. – Oscar Wilde
  40. Despite the modern equipment we sell, it’s old money that funds it, and old money doesn’t always have a modern brain attached to it. – Taylin Clavelli

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