The mistaken notion that despair belongs only to youth is also desperate and despairing in quite another way.
 Søren Kierkegaard, The Sickness Unto Death (1849). copy citation

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