Soren Kierkegaard

the same movement, but in opposite directions. For what is recollected has been, is repeated backwards. Genuine repetition, on t ...

driveling, do one thing one day, something else the next, though without emotion, in a total rut....Rather than an yof the delig ...

The whole business seemed heaven-sent, totall yunplanned and yet so perfectlyex nihilo. And it was precisel ythis exuberance tha ...

of them happen b yhappening, butwhenthe yhappen the ygive existence its fullness. For example, at one point Constantin Constanti ...

And indeed, Constantin Constantius could well have added, with reference to that nose-picking little girl: She believed in repet ...

contemplation of which constituted his view of life, so will the post horn on m ytable alwa ys remind me of the meaning of life. ...

one format, sometimes in another,” after which the cop yis laid “upon m y sick heart like a dressing made from the herb called ‘ ...

Here the Young Man has rewritten Job’s questions in a modern, absurdist manifesto whose furious call for meaning fades into sile ...

test between the Young Man’s last and next-to-last letters. It is clear from this protest that, like the reader, Constantin Cons ...

be feminine generosity! Long live the flight of thought! Long live risking one’s life in the service of the idea! Long live the ...

separate and independent sequences, completed and delineated b yCon- stantin Constantius and the Young Man, respectively. But no ...

has “included himself in it,” because this makes the characters in the work so amorphous that the ybegin to dissolve into utter ...

ment: “He confided in me with a charming frankness (which I will not abuse, since he is dead) that the reason he called on me wa ...

between the repetition that had originall ybeen intended and the one that actuall ytook place, and Constantin Constantius attemp ...

repetition. It is curious that the onl yperson for whom repetition succeeded was Regine, who was united once again with Fritz an ...

and Trembling. Kierkegaard subsequentl yobscured the journal entr yabout Regine with a great man yink curlicues, but with the he ...

with Regine. Thus, he was far from being the “villain” people thought him to be, “because in truth it was certainly....”Certainl ...

to founder, he prayed not only for his eternal salvation, but also for his temporal salvation.” It was Saint Paul who inspired K ...

Fear and Trembling “In general, if poetr ypaid attention to the religious or to the inwardness of the individual, it would take ...

Tarquinius Superbus said in his garden b ymeans of the poppies was under- stood b yhis son but not b ythe messenger.” This sound ...