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Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
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The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you. – Soren Kierkegaard

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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

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Death
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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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Faith
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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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I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. – Voltaire

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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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A harmful truth is better than a useful lie. – Thomas Mann

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