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  • The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to express, and generally has something hard in its nature. Falling in love, however, promptly sets it to music, even if this composition contains a very difficult passage.

    "Stages on Life's Way" by Søren Kierkegaard, Hong, (p. 111), April 30, 1845.