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Quote by Soren Kierkegaard
The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. Yo

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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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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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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When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth? – Jeanne Moreau

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The genuine truth, and I do think about this a lot, is that Im one of the least competitive people youll ever meet. Except with myself. – Daniel Craig

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Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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