"The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.“


-Soren Kierkegaard

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The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

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