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The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.

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Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
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
Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
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
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
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
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
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
Only an artist can interpret the meaning of life.
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Artist Life Meaning
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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
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

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