If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the b... - Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

"If there were no eternal consciousness in a man, if at the bottom of everything there were only a wild ferment, a power that twisting in dark passions produced everything great or inconsequential; if an unfathomable, insatiable emptiness lay hid beneath everything, what would life be but despair?"

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