"Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards."
-Soren Kierkegaard
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"The truth is a snare: you cannot have it, without being caught. You cannot have the truth in such a way that you catch it, but only in such a way that it catches you.“
-Soren Kierkegaard
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