An idea from The Sickness Unto Death

A sharper form knows something is wrong and blames the world. The talk stays on a lost job, a closed door, a love that ended. The real loss is of the eternal. That loss does not get named.

From The Sickness Unto Death by Søren Kierkegaard

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