In despair nothing is destroyed, all a person’s aesthetic qualities remain, it is just that they become ancillary and are preserved for that very reason. Yes, it is indeed true that one does not live in the aesthetic as one did, but it by no means follows that one loses it.
 Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (1843). copy citation

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