Soren Kierkegaard
Philosopher, Theologian
"Death cannot explain itself. The earnestness consists precisely in this, that the observer must explain it to himself."
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Earnestness
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Victor Hugo
Novelist, Poet
"Earnestness is the salt of eloquence."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into."
Thomas Carlyle
Essayist, Historian, Novelist
"Earnestness alone makes life eternity."
Ramakrishna
Spiritual Leader
"With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions."
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"Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling."
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