Consider first the hoping individual. When, as a hoping individual (and of course to that extent unhappy) , he is not present to himself, he becomes unhappy in a stricter sense.
 Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (1843). copy citation

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Author Søren Kierkegaard
Source Either/Or
Topic hope present
Date 1843
Language English
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Note Translated by Alastair Hannay
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