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Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his yo

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate. – Soren Kierkegaard

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Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. – Soren Kierkegaard

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The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. – Soren Kierkegaard

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What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music. – Soren Kierkegaard

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To be perfectly honest, I think that as Im growing older, Im just growing more impatient. Ill be very happy if at some point people say, Michaels grown wiser and softer in his old age. But well have to wait and see what my next project is. – Michael Haneke

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From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember Ive liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked. – Tom Stoppard

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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. – Ambrose Bierce

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Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age. – Albert Einstein

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