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Nature is a petrified magic city.

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Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
To become properly acquainted with a truth, we must first have disbelieved it, and disputed against it.
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Believe Proper Truth
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.
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Artist Deep Perspective Work
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
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
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
Friends, the soil is poor, we must sow seeds in plenty for us to garner even modest harvests.
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Friendship Harvest Modest Poor Result
Character is a wish for a perfect education.
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Character Desire Education One Liner Perfection
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

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