for me nothing is more dangerous than to recollect [erindre]. as soon as i have recollected a life relationship, that relationship has ceased to exist. it is said that absence makes the heart grow fonder. that is very true, but it becomes fonder in a purely poetic way. to live in recollection is the most perfect life imaginable; recollection is more richly satisfying than all actuality, and it has a security that no actuality possesses. a recollected life relationship has already passed into eternity and has no temporal interest.
-soren kierkegaard either/or part 1
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