source of differences. Brief is her splendor; but quickly
the pain is forgotten, too, even as though I had never felt it, when the
same splendor is proffered me anew. It is true, I too am aware of the
unbeautiful which may appear in her thereafter; but she is not thus with
her seducer.
FROM KIERKEGAARD'S JOURNALS
WOMAN/MAN
- The more a body is organically developed, the more dreadful is the
decay. When grass rots, there is a fragrance. When an animal rots, it
stinks. A man's perdition is dreadful, more dreadful even than a
woman's. Is this a proof that man is superior to woman?
- . . . she is more sensate than man; for were she more spiritual she
could never have her culmination point in another. Spirit is the true
independent.
Of course every religious view, like every more profound philosophical
view, sees woman, despite this difference, as essentially identical with
man; but it is not foolish enough to forget for that reason the truth of
the difference, aesthetically and ethically understood.
- The whole plan of "A Thousand and One Nights" is very profound. This
battle between masculinity and femininity, the fact that femininity
conquers by means of her storytelling, her persuasiveness. In the future
the Sultan, who has discovered the basic unfaithfulness of all women,
intends to have every woman put to death after one single nig
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