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Kierkegaard on Despair

Posted on November 9th, 2006, in the evening

Here's how to start a book:

If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the foundation of all there lay only a wildly seething power which writhing with obscure passions produced everything that is great and everything that is insignificant, if a bottomless void never satiated lay hidden beneath all - what then would life be but despair?

Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling, tr. Lowrie

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