The enviable thing with a human life is that one can come to the aid of the Deity, can understand Him, and again the only way of understanding Him worthy of a man is freely to appropriate all that has fallen to one, both the joyful and the sorrowful.
 Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (1843). copy citation

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