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Quotes from Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays — Søren Kierkegaard

1813–1855 Denmark

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Confession should be only in secret before God, who knows everything anyway, and thus it could remain hidden in one's innermost being. But at a dinner – and a woman! A dinner-it is not some hidden, remote place, nor is the lighting dim, nor is the mood like that among graves, nor are the listeners silent or invisibly present.

Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays (1849)

I see again what I thought I saw the first time, when I sent forth the little book that was compared to and in fact could best be compared to “a humble little flower under the cover of the great forest”

Three Discourses at the Communion on Fridays (1849)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Søren Kierkegaard (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.