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Tip-Off #96 - Stay — A belated discovery

Tip-Off #96 - Stay — A belated discovery

"Patience is the opposite of despair." - Soren Kierkegaard, Danish theologian, 1849.

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Patience, 1943 - Balthus
Patience - Balthus (Balthasar Klossowski de Rola - 1943), oil, 20.28 x 12.8 inches, Museum of Modern Art. - Solitaire, perseverance. Wikiart.

Friedrich Nietzsche, a staunch critic of Christianity, called Soren Kierkegaard "a psychologist without equal." Both men argued that patience is essential for becoming oneself because it allows us to endure the suf…

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