"If one imagined a crowd of young people, each one wishing, one would find out by means of the wishes to what extent there was something deeper in the individual’s soul, because there is no mirror as accurate as the wish. Although in other respects a mirror sometimes flatters the person looking into it, shows him different from what he actually is, we must say that the wish, aided by possibility, flatteringly beguiles him to disclose himself entirely as he is, beguiles him to look exactly like himself."
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Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits
Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits (March 13, 1847) by Søren Kierkegaard, copyright 1993 by Howard Hong, Princeton University Press. This book was originally published as Edifying Discourses and was changed to Upbuilding Discourses in 1993 by Howard V Hong.
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