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Anxiety and nothing always correspond to each other.

— Søren Kierkegaard The Concept of Anxiety (1844)

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It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.

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Freedom succumbs to dizziness. Further than this, psychology cannot and will not go.

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It is the duty of the human understanding to understand that there are things which it cannot understand, and what those things are.

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