"Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I, between existence [Existentsen] and the idea of existence."
— Existence

January 1, 1970

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Søren Kierkegaard, in Kierkegaard's Writings, II: The Concept of Irony, with Continual Reference to Socrates/Notes of Schelling's Berlin Lectures, Princeton University Press, 21 April 2013, p. 444