Soren Kierkegaard

have wanted, is the same thing I want, except that I want it in a major key,
something that can be explained by the difference between my personality
and his and by the different requirements of the times.”
For Self-Examinationwas well received in the literary world and, like the
Two Discourses for the Communion on Fridays, it enjoyed the unusual fate of
appearing in a second printing in the year immediately following its original
publication. It took five years forWorks of LoveandPractice in Christianity
to appear in a second printing, whileStages on Life’s Wayhad to wait thirteen
andFear and Tremblingall of fourteen years.