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Deliberation (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠an instant like Plato's instant, which has no existence: the longer one stares at it, the less it exists.

Deliberation (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠is long is suspicious in two cases, the trifle and God: the longer one deliberates about choosing God, the farther one moves from him.

Deliberation (n.) on ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠what Christianity is, carried on for a lifetime, is a ludicrous contradiction: when would one ever exist in it?

Deliberation (n.) comes ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠before true action as repentance comes after: only once a man has exhausted the dialectic in deliberating does he really act, and only once he has exhausted it in repenting does he really repent.

Deliberation (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠never ends makes you for half a year a better parson than the parsons, then a better actor — and then a third alternative rises from the waste of your reflections, and you are lost.