There are, as is known, insects that die in the moment of fertilization. So it is with all joy: lifes highest, most splendid moment of enjoyment is accompanied by death. – Soren Kierkegaard
The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo. – Soren Kierkegaard
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