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Article: "The break is not a break": Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Poesis as abiding love.(Essays)
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- The Antioch Review
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- January 1, 2004
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If my friend says in his mind, I will never see you again, I translate it of necessity into ever. That is its definition in Love's lexicon.
--Henry David Thoreau, journal, 24 February 1857
In the chapter "Love Abides," in his Works of Love: Some Christian Reflections in the Form of Discourses (1847), Soren Kierkegaard admits that while "you know indeed that God is," nevertheless at times "it seems to you as if he had receded into himself, as if he were absent in heaven far away from all these insignificant things which are hardly worth living for." In this moment of apparent abandonment, as in other despairing scenarios, Kierkegaard urges that one's ...
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