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Where are we really going? Always home.

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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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
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
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
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
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
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
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
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
Fate and temperament are the names of a concept.
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Concept Fate Name Temperature

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