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Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

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Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
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 true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
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
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
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
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
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 an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
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

Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.

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