Enough has been said about the light-mindedness of the age; it is high time, I think, to say a little about its depression.The egotistical depression naturally fears on its own account and, like all depression, is self-indulgent in enjoyment.Sympathetic depression is more distressing and also somewhat more noble; it fears itself for the sake of the other.Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Vol. 2, translated by Hong, pp. 24-25.

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