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Soren Kierkegaard Quotes: I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.
         

I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.


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For without risk there is no faith, and the greater the risk, the greater the faith.



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