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“Repetition and recollection are the same movement, except in opposite directions, for what is…”
“Repetition and recollection are the same movement, except in opposite directions, for what is…”

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“Repetition and recollection are the same movement, except in opposite directions, for what is recollected has been, is repeated backward. Repetition, therefore, if it is possible makes a person happy, whereas recollection makes him unhappy…”

Søren Kierkegaard, Repetition

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