The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation [which accounts for it] that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but [is] that the relation relates itself to its own self.
— Soren Kierkegaard Modern

Father of existentialism

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The Sickness Unto Death

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1849

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42079/42079-h/42079-h.htm

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