# What would the writer say about the same behaviour you have repeated three times this month?

_Theme: **patterns** - card 4/4 - 2026-05-14_

> He saluted with his full glass as a signal of parting, emptying it, and then flinging it against the door in the rear wall. The others followed his example, consummating this symbolic action with all the solemnity of adepts. Justice was thus done the pleasure of stopping short--that royal pleasure which, though briefer, yet is more liberating than any other pleasure.

-- Soren Kierkegaard, _Selections from the Writings of Kierkegaard_

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