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A review by vivian_m_anderson
The Present Age by Søren Kierkegaard
4.25
remarkably prescient for the time, and wonderfully short.
"nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with with thought. it is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. he does not die with deliberation but from deliberation."
"nowadays not even a suicide kills himself in desperation. before taking the step he deliberates so long and so carefully that he literally chokes with with thought. it is even questionable whether he ought to be called a suicide, since it is really thought which takes his life. he does not die with deliberation but from deliberation."