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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.

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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization

There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.

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There is an energy which springs from sickness and debility: it has a more powerful effect than the real, but, sadly, expires in an even greater infirmity.

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