The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is …

Soren Kierkegaard
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The self is a relation which relates itself to its own self, or it is that in the relation that the relation relates itself to its own self; the self is not the relation but that the relation relates itself to its own self. ✨ Soren Kierkegaard (2013). The Wisdom of Kierkegaard, p.213, Simon and Schuster
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