#Updates
1) Changing name to "The Starry Night", The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh.
It reflects his direct observations of his view of the countryside from his window as well as the memories and emotions this view evoked in him.
2) Made an guide index
1) Changing name to "The Starry Night", The Starry Night is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh.
It reflects his direct observations of his view of the countryside from his window as well as the memories and emotions this view evoked in him.
2) Made an guide index
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Søren Kierkegaard (Danish philosopher)
(May 5, 1813 - Nov. 11, 1855)
Kierkegaard’s life has been called uneventful, but it was hardly that. The story of his life is a drama in four overlapping acts, each with its own distinctive crisis or “collision,” as he often referred to these events.
The first collision occurred during his student days: he became estranged both from his father and from the faith in which he had been brought up, and he moved out of the family home.
He broke his engagement with Regine Olsen, thus initiating the second major collision of his life.
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(May 5, 1813 - Nov. 11, 1855)
Kierkegaard’s life has been called uneventful, but it was hardly that. The story of his life is a drama in four overlapping acts, each with its own distinctive crisis or “collision,” as he often referred to these events.
The first collision occurred during his student days: he became estranged both from his father and from the faith in which he had been brought up, and he moved out of the family home.
He broke his engagement with Regine Olsen, thus initiating the second major collision of his life.
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“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
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“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.”
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
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“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
— The Journals of Kierkegaard
— The Journals of Kierkegaard
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“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.”
— Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
— Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
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“The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.”
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“In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant… My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known — no wonder, then, that I return the love.”
— Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
— Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
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“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.”
— Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
— Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
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“Love is the expression of the one who loves, not of the one who is loved. Those who think they can love only the people they prefer do not love at all. Love discovers truths about individuals that others cannot see”
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“What if everything in the world were a misunderstanding, what if laughter were really tears?”
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“To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.”
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“How did I get into the world? Why was I not asked about it and why was I not informed of the rules and regulations but just thrust into the ranks as if I had been bought by a peddling shanghaier of human beings? How did I get involved in this big enterprise called actuality? Why should I be involved? Isn't it a matter of choice? And if I am compelled to be involved, where is the manager—I have something to say about this. Is there no manager? To whom shall I make my complaint?”
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