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Sunday, October 30, 2005
Pater Noster
Kierkegaard, Journals, July 19, 1840 (tr. Alexander Dru):
I learnt from him the meaning of fatherly love and so was given some idea of divine fatherly love, the one unshakable thing in life, the true archimedean point.