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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

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Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
Genius in general is poetic. Where genius has been active it has been poetically active. The truly moral person is a poet.
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Active Genius Moral Person Poet Poetry True
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up

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