The Return: Kierkegaard

I think I agree with Elizabeth B.: K.'s journals are perhaps the most readable (not that I've dared to read him all). Perhaps I'll get back to them someday, but for tonight I'm just looking for a random Hogarthian line of red (swiped many years ago when I only had "real" books!).

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And the winner is:

It is said that experience makes a man wise. That is a very unreasonable thing to say. If there were nothing still higher than experience, experience would make him mad.

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