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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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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
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
All power appears only in transition. Permanent power is stuff.
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Appearance Power Transition
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
Hypotheses are nets: only he who casts will catch.
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Catch Himself Trap
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
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
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
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
A character is a completely fashioned will.
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Character Complete Fashion Willing
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
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General Happiness Life Man Marriage

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