when they are in despair, there is nothing they desire more than to have been someone else or to become someone else.
 Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death (1849). copy citation

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