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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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Effect Energy Greatness Powerful Reality Sadness Spring
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
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
I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.
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Character Fate Feeling Myself Realization
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 touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
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
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound

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