Revenge: it's a dream of flames fueled by scorched remains that are lit to a torch and brought back upon the one who burned you.
It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived__orwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.
The Diary Of Soren Kierkegaard
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It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived__orwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward- looking position.
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