“To one unnamed, whose name will one day be named, is dedicated, with this little work, the entire authorship, as it was from the beginning. (Dedication) P. 163”

—  Sören Kierkegaard

1850s, Two Discourses at Friday Communion (August 1851)

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Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813–1855

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