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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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Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of highest strength, of most powerful life. It is the maximum of the savage.
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Dangerous Ideal Moral Powerful Savage Strength
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
Philosophy bears witness to the deepest love of reflection, to absolute delight in wisdom.
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Deep Delight Love Philosophy Reflection Wisdom
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
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
Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective

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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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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