If one does not insist that it is within himself that the individual has the ideal self, one’s thoughts and aspirations will be abstract. The person who copies another and the person who would copy the normal man both become, though in different ways, equally affected.
 Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or (1843). copy citation

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