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Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.

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Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
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
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
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

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