An admirer who feels that he cannot become happy by abandoning himself to it chooses to be envious of that which he admires.
 Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death (1849). copy citation

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