A self that in despair wills to be itself is pained in some distress or other that does not allow itself to be taken away from or separated from his concrete self.
 Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death (1849). copy citation

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Author Søren Kierkegaard
Source The Sickness Unto Death
Topic pain despair
Date 1849
Language English
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Note Translated
 by Howard V. Hong and 
Edna H. Hong
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