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A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?

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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
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
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
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
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
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
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition

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