The Danish theologian and philosopher Søren Kierkegaard once said, “I have walked myself into my best thoughts,” and contemporary poet and novelist Helen Dunmore claims, “A problem with a piece of ...

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The Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth is skeptical of conclusions. She knows that readers always know that the end of the story, happy or tragic, is not quite like life: There are ...

At first glance, you might think you’ve met a guy like Søren Kierkegaard. Picture the kind of sad young literary man who knows his Romantic poets. He meets a teenage girl at a party and gets her ...

There are quotes from Kierkegaard (boredom as “the root of evil”) and Pascal (“The unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber”) and ...