“How could one speak properly about love if you were forgotten, you God of love, source of all love in heaven and on earth; you who spared nothing but in love gave everything; you who are love, so that one who loves is what he is only by being in you.”

opening prayer, p. 3
1840s, Works of Love (1847)

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Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813–1855

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