“Take a book, the poorest one written, but read it with the passion that it is the only book you will read-ultimately you will read everything out of it, that is, as much as there was in yourself, and you could never get more out of reading, even if you read the best of books.”

Stages on Life's Way, 1845 p. 363-364
1840s, Stages on Life's Way (1845)

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Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813–1855

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