"If God himself had not willed repetition, the world would not have come into existence. Either he would have followed the superficial plans of hope or he would have retracted everything and preserved it in recollection. This he did not do. Therefore, the world continues, and it continues because it is a repetition. Repetition — that is actuality and the earnestness of existence. The person who wills repetition is mature in earnestness."
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Søren Kierkegaard, in Repetition : A Venture in Experimental Psychology (1843) Part One: Report by Constantin Constantius
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