The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the com…

Soren Kierkegaard
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The more one suffers, the more, I believe, has one a sense for the comic. It is only by the deepest suffering that one acquires true authority in the use of the comic, an authority which by one word transforms as by magic the reasonable creature one calls man into a caricature. ✨ Stages on Life's Way. Book by Søren Kierkegaard, 1845.
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