Perhaps you yourself have concealed a secret that in its joy or in its pain you felt was too intimate to share with others. Perhaps your life has put you in touch with people about whom you suspected that something of this nature was the case, although neither by force nor by inveiglement were you able to bring out into the open that which was hidden.
Manuscript of the preface of Kierkegaard’s Enten – Eller (Either/Or), ca. 1841-1843.

























