“My dear reader, read aloud, if possible! If you do so, allow me to thank you for it: if you not only do it yourself, if you also influence others to do it, allow me to thank each one of them, and you again and again!”

— Sören Kierkegaard

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1850s, For Self-Examination (1851)

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Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism 1813–1855

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