If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.
— Soren Kierkegaard Modern

Father of existentialism

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Either/Or, Part I

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1843

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Humorous

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