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From The Sickness Unto Death, by Soren Kierkegaard, translated by Alastair Hannay

ENVY

"Envy is concealed admiration. A man who admires something but feels he cannot be happy surrendering himself to it, that man chooses to be envious of what he admires. He then speaks another language. In this language of his the thing he admires is said to be nothing, something stupid and humiliating and peculiar and exaggerated. Admiration is happy self-surrender, envy is unhappy self-assertion."

From Part Two, Despair is Sin

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From Either/Or, by Soren Kierkegaard, translated by Alastair Hannay

NOW

"Now regarding the nature of music as a medium, this will naturally always be a very interesting problem. Whether I am able to say anything adequate on the matter is another question."

From The Immediate Erotic Stages or the Musical Erotic, Platitudinous Introduction

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From The Lily of the Field and The Bird of the Air, by Soren Kierkegaard, translated by Bruce H. Kirmmse

PAY ATTENTION

"Pay attention then to nature, which surrounds you."

From Chapter II, "No one can serve two masters, for he must either hate the one and love the other, or hold fast to one and despise the other."

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From Fear and Trembling, by Soren Kierkegaard, translated by Alistair Hannay

LEARNED

"No person who has learned that to exist as the individual is the most terrifying thing of all will be afraid of saying it is the greatest."

From Problema II, Is there an absolute duty to God?

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From Fear & Trembing, by Soren Kierkegaard, translated by Alastair Hannay

WAS IT NOT

"Was it not a fearful thought that this man who walked among others was God?  Was it not terrifying to sit down to eat with him?"

From Problema I

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From Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book, by Walker Percy

PRESUMABLY

"Presumably, Kierkegaard would have no difficulty explaining that national characteristic which has astounded so many foreign visitors to this country: that the United States is at once the most Christian of nations (at least in the numbers of churchgoers) and at the same time the most eroticized society in all history."

From (18) The Demonic Self