“It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.”

—  Sören Kierkegaard

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Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813–1855

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