“It will be easy for us once we receive the ball of yarn from…”

“It will be easy for us once we receive the ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many are there who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?”

— Søren Kierkegaard

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Source

Title: Wikiquote: Søren Kierkegaard
Type: reference · Secondary source
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Context

Journal entry, August 1, 1835

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Kierkegaard, Søren. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Søren Kierkegaard. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Søren_Kierkegaard

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