Soren Kierkegaards birthday, who had a huge impact on writers like Henrik Ibsen, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges and Albert Camus. A strange thing happened to me in my dream. I was rapt into the Seventh Heaven. There sat all the gods assembled. As a special dispensation I was granted the favor to have one wish. Do you wish for youth, said Mercury, or for beauty, or power, or a long life; or do you wish for the most beautiful woman, or any other of the many fine things we have in our treasure trove? Choose, but only one thing! For a moment I was at a loss. Then I addressed the gods in this wise: Most honorable contemporaries, I choose one thing—that I may always have the laughs on MY side. Not one god made answer, but all began to laugh. From this I concluded that my wish had been granted and thought that the gods knew how to express themselves with good taste: for it would surely have been inappropriate to answer gravely: your wish has been granted. ccel.org/k/kierkegaard/selections/home.html
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