But what, indeed, can with greater truth be called a woman’s life than her love? So when the sorrow of an unhappy love is rooted in a deception, we have unreservedly a case of reflective sorrow, whether this persists for a lifetime or she overcomes it.
 Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (1843). copy citation

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