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“Looking back at a repetition of empty days, one sees that monuments have sprung up. Habit is not mere subjugation, it is a tender tie: when one remembers habit it seems to have been happiness.”
― The Death of the Heart
― The Death of the Heart
“As for Thomas, the longer he lived, the less he cared for the world.”
― The Death of the Heart
― The Death of the Heart
“The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out.”
― The Death of the Heart
― The Death of the Heart
“I have just returned from a party of which I was the life and soul; wit poured from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me–but I went away– and wanted to shoot myself.”
― The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections from His Journals
― The Soul of Kierkegaard: Selections from His Journals
“The furniture would have missed you?
Furniture's knowing all right. Not much gets past the things in a room, I daresay, and chairs and tables don't go to the grave so soon. Every time I take the soft cloth to that stuff in the drawingroom, I could say, 'Well, you know a bit more'.”
― The Death of the Heart
Furniture's knowing all right. Not much gets past the things in a room, I daresay, and chairs and tables don't go to the grave so soon. Every time I take the soft cloth to that stuff in the drawingroom, I could say, 'Well, you know a bit more'.”
― The Death of the Heart
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