Soren Kierkegaard:

I am a living demonstration of the fact that a man can remain a virgin until he is 30, and yet be a man.

— Soren Kierkegaard Modern

Father of existentialism

Context

Journals and Papers, X 2 A 196

Date / Period

1849

Source

https://sorenkierkegaard.org/journals-and-papers.html

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