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“All isolated individuals always become comic by asserting their own accidental individuality in the face of evolutionary necessity. There is no doubt that it would be most deeply comical to have some accidental individual come by the universal idea of wanting to be the saviour of the whole world.”

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Book:Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
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Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

Kierkegaard's influential work delves into the complexities of human decision-making, examining the contrast between the aesthetic and ethical life. more

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Book:The Journal, 1837-1861
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Book:The Noble Hustle: Poker, Beef Jerky, and Death
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