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Soren Kierkegaard Quotes: Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward.
         

Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward.


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Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forward.
         



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A man prayed, and at first he thought that prayer was talking. But he became more and more quiet until in the end he realized prayer is listening.



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